History and Historiography in Early Christian Ireland

Despite modern writers noticing the importance of Premodern historiographical phenomena for a deeper comprehension of both Theory of History and History of Historiography, the Irish contribution to the subject is often left aside. Topics such as the Seanchas Tradition and Medieval Irish Classicism a...

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Main Author: Dominique Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP); Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) 2020-08-01
Series:História da Historiografia
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Online Access:https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/1548
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description Despite modern writers noticing the importance of Premodern historiographical phenomena for a deeper comprehension of both Theory of History and History of Historiography, the Irish contribution to the subject is often left aside. Topics such as the Seanchas Tradition and Medieval Irish Classicism are not well integrated into such historiographical narrative. The Seanchaidh, the Irish Artifex of the Past, for example, is broadly mentioned as not a historian, but a chronicler, antiquary, genealogist, hagiographer or pedigree systematizer. This article addresses these issues and, more specifically, we focus on two Irish narratives produced in 7th century by Muirchú and Tírechán. Since they belong to the world of orality and bilingual literacy of Early Christian Ireland, perhaps their works could be understood as bounded by the Seanchas Tradition and Medieval Irish Classicism, hence, both could be considered as great examples of the producers of History and Historiography at the time.
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spelling doaj.art-9b51c64675e549b3967d67ce028e3b3f2022-12-21T23:22:16ZengUniversidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP); Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)História da Historiografia1983-99282020-08-01133319722710.15848/hh.v13i33.15481548History and Historiography in Early Christian IrelandDominique SantosDespite modern writers noticing the importance of Premodern historiographical phenomena for a deeper comprehension of both Theory of History and History of Historiography, the Irish contribution to the subject is often left aside. Topics such as the Seanchas Tradition and Medieval Irish Classicism are not well integrated into such historiographical narrative. The Seanchaidh, the Irish Artifex of the Past, for example, is broadly mentioned as not a historian, but a chronicler, antiquary, genealogist, hagiographer or pedigree systematizer. This article addresses these issues and, more specifically, we focus on two Irish narratives produced in 7th century by Muirchú and Tírechán. Since they belong to the world of orality and bilingual literacy of Early Christian Ireland, perhaps their works could be understood as bounded by the Seanchas Tradition and Medieval Irish Classicism, hence, both could be considered as great examples of the producers of History and Historiography at the time.https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/1548historiographymedievalireland
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title History and Historiography in Early Christian Ireland
title_full History and Historiography in Early Christian Ireland
title_fullStr History and Historiography in Early Christian Ireland
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title_short History and Historiography in Early Christian Ireland
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