Notes on contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword & acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. List of plates xiii
6. Notes on contributors xv
7. Editors’ introduction 1
8. Allegory, the áes dána and the liberal arts in Medieval Irish literature 11
9. Cryptography and the alphabet in the “Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin” 35
10. Caide Máthair Bréithre “What is the Mother of a Word” 65
11. The expression of “sense, meaning, signification” in the Old Irish glosses, and particularly in the Milan and Saint Gall glosses 85
12. The verbal paradigms in Auraicept na nÉces 101
13. The glossing of the Early Irish law tracts 113
14. Teaching between the lines 133
15. The Welsh bardic grammars on Litterae 149
16. Poetry by numbers 161
17. Gramadeg Gwysanau 181
18. Master list of references 201
19. Index of manuscripts 219
20. Index of subjects 221
21. Index of terms by language 225