Informationen zum Autor Amy C. Mulligan is Assistant Professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame Klappentext This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of 'place' and developed a 'spatial turn' that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity. Zusammenfassung This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of 'place' and developed a 'spatial turn' that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 Holy islands: transformative landscapes and the origins of an Irish spatial poetics 2 Place-making heroes and the storying of Ireland's vernacular landscape 3 A versified Ireland: the Dindshenchas Érenn and a national poetics of space 4 National pilgrims: travelling a sanctified landscape with Saint Patrick 5 English topographies of Ireland's conquest and conversion ConclusionIndex

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This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of 'place' and developed a 'spatial turn' that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity.

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Introduction 1 Holy islands: transformative landscapes and the origins of an Irish spatial poetics 2 Place-making heroes and the storying of Ireland's vernacular landscape 3 A versified Ireland: the Dindshenchas Érenn and a national poetics of space 4 National pilgrims: travelling a sanctified landscape with Saint Patrick 5 English topographies of Ireland's conquest and conversion Conclusion Index