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Conversing with angels and ancients : literary myths of medieval Ireland by Joseph Falaky Nagy is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>How does a written literature come into being within an oral culture, and how does such a literature achieve and maintain its authority? Joseph Falaky Nagy addresses those issues in his wide-ranging reading of the medieval literature of Ireland, from the writings of St. Patrick to the epic tales about the warrior Cú Chulainn. These texts, written in both Latin and Irish, constitute an adventurous and productive experiment in staging confrontations between the written and the spoken, the Chris
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Joseph Falaky Nagy
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press; Cornell Univ Pr
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801483684
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Science, Medieval
- Updated
- 2026-03-24