Category: Medieval Irish saints

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Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

Category: Medieval Irish people

Category: Medieval Irish saints

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Loomis traced a number of parallels between Medieval Welsh literature and Irish material and the Grail romances, including similarities between the Mabinogions Bran the Blessed and the Arthurian Fisher King, and between Bran's life-restoring cauldron and the Grail.

* Kern ( soldier ), a light infantry unit in Medieval Irish armies

It uses a distinctive form of the general Celtic Early Medieval development of La Tène style with increasing influences from the Insular art of 7th and 8th century Ireland and Northumbria, and then Anglo-Saxon and Irish art as the Early Medieval period continues.

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* Settlement patterns in the early historic kingdom of Leinster ( seventh-mid twelfth centuries ), Mark Clinton, in Seanchas: Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis John Byrne, ed.

She agrees to become his wife, on one condition: that Fergus allows Conchobar to be king for a year, so his children will be called the sons of a king ( under Medieval Irish law inheritance passed through the male line, and only those who had a king as a male-line ancestor were eligible for kingship ).

" The Evidence for Vernacular Irish Literary Influence on Early Medieval Welsh Literature.

" The Submission of Irish Kings in Fact and Fiction: Henry II, Bendigeidfran, and the dating of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi ", Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, 22 ( Winter 1991 ): 31 – 61.

The chimney-piece, which was exhibited at the Medieval Court of the Great Exhibition of 1851, was also designed by Pugin ( and Myers ) but was originally intended for Horstead Place in Sussex, it was rejected because it was too elaborate and subsequently bought for Lismore-the Barchard family emblems later replaced with the present Irish inscription Cead Mille Failte: a hundred thousand welcomes.

Category: Medieval Irish writers

The Constitution of 1782 is a collective term given to a series of legal changes which freed the Parliament of Ireland, a Medieval parliament consisting of the Irish House of Commons and the Irish House of Lords, of legal restrictions that had been imposed by successive Norman, English, and later, British governments on the scope of its jurisdiction.

* The archaeology of early Irish kingship, Richard B. Warner, in Power and Politics in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland, pp. 47 – 68, ed.

Medieval Muslim scholars regularly described Aristotle as the " First Teacher ".

Medieval scholars may be considered forerunners of modern anthropology as well, insofar as they conducted or wrote detailed studies of the customs of peoples considered " different " from themselves in terms of geography.

Modern studies have shown the important role such concepts played in the world-view of Early Medieval scholars.

Medieval scholars used in the Vulgate the Hebrew rendering of these two verses, and in their eyes the words " Agur " and " Lemuel " were but symbolic names of Solomon.

Although references are made referring to Slavs in Macedonia being identified as Bulgarians, some scholars suggest that ethnicity in Medieval times was more fluid than what we see it to be today, an understanding derived from nineteenth century nationalistic ideals of a homogeneous nation-state.

Most modern scholars dismiss Pope Joan as a Medieval legend.

Early Christian Church Fathers and Medieval European scholars interpreted the Genesis creation narrative allegorically rather than as a literal historical account ; organisms were described by their mythological and heraldic significance as well as by their physical form.

For these scholars, antisemitism in Medieval Islam was local and sporadic rather than general and endemic.

Philo's works became important to Medieval Christian scholars who leveraged the work of Karaites to lend credence to their claims that " these are the beliefs of Jews "-a technically correct, yet mendacious, attribution.

Some scholars believe it might have an early Medieval origin, while others emphasize earlier traditions appearing in the book.

Medieval Chinese scholars devoted a great deal of effort to describing the sounds of their language, especially to aid in reading the classics aloud and in the correct composition of poetry.

Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is descended from the Medieval citole, or cytole.

Apart from some of the clergy who had studied at the universities and cathedral schools in Paris or in Cologne, there were few scholars in the land ; even amongst the higher clergy there were many who were ignorant of the scientific study of Latin, and the ordinary burgher of the Dutch cities was quite content if, when his children left school, they were able to read and write the Medieval Low German and Diets.

The International Congress on Medieval Studies is an annual academic conference held for scholars specializing in, or with an interest in, medieval studies.

The two languages of culture in Medieval Iberia were Latin in the north ( although it was also used in the south by Mozarab scholars ) and Arabic in the south ( which was the principal literary language of Mozarab scholars ).

Also shown on some maps are exotic plants, beasts and races known to Medieval scholars only through Roman and Greek texts.

While these lais are occasionally interspersed with the Marian lais in Medieval manuscripts, scholars do not agree that these lais were actually written by Marie.

Thus, from a Western European perspective, Classic, Medieval, and Enlightenment-era scholars formed the foundation of the discipline that has come to be called public administration.

Medieval scholars have suggested that people may have been under the impression that the rat king was actually one animal with many bodies, with the “ king ” referring to the animal's size.

Medieval scholars and theologians, translating both the Bible and Greek philosophers into Latin out of the Koine and Classical Greek, cobbled together many new abstract concept words in Latin.

For this reason, scholars find the singularity of the period called the English Renaissance questionable ; C. S. Lewis, a professor of Medieval and Renaissance literature at Oxford and Cambridge, famously remarked to a colleague that he had " discovered " that there was no English Renaissance, and that if there had been one, it had " no effect whatsoever ".

The etymology of the Welsh name Arthur is uncertain, though most scholars favour either a derivation from the Roman gens name Artorius ( ultimately of Messapic or Etruscan origin ), or a native Brittonic compound based on the root * arto-" bear " ( which became arth in Medieval and Modern Welsh ).

Foucault then develops a holistic account of power and uses methods not too dissimilar to the astonishing and outstanding Medieval Islamic polymaths scholars Alhazen, Ibn Sīnā, and Ibn Khaldūn and to a lesser extant prominent science figures from 20th century science such as ; Gregory Bateson, James Lovelock ( the founder of Gaia hypothesis ) and Robert N. Proctor ( Proctor who coined the term Agnotology ) and urges us to think outside the box of this new kind of power, therefore, opening up the possibilities of further investigations into this new perceived, impenetrable nature of biopower and according to Foucault he asks us to remember, this type of power is never neutral nor is it independent from the rest of society but are embedded within society functioning as embellished ' control technology ' specifics. Foucault argues ; nation states, police, government, legal practices, human sciences and medical institutions have their own rationale, cause and effects, strategies, technologies, mechanisms and codes and have managed successfully in the past to obscure there workings by hiding behind observation and scrutiny.