{"product_id":"conversing-with-angels-and-ancients-literary-myths-of-medieval-ireland","title":"Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland","description":"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 Christian and the pagan.\nThe early Irish literati, primarily clerics living within a monastic milieu, produced literature that included saints' lives, heroic sagas, law tracts, and other genres. They sought to invest their literature with an authority different from that of the traditions from which they borrowed, native and foreign. To achieve this goal, they cast many of their texts as the outcome of momentous dialogues between saints and angelic messengers or remarkable interviews with the dead, who could reveal some insight from the past that needed to be rediscovered by forgetful contemporaries. Conversing with angels and ancients, medieval Irish writers boldly inscribed their visions of the past onto the new Christian order and its literature.\nNagy includes portions of the original Latin and Irish texts that are not readily available to scholars, along with full translations.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0801483689\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0801483689.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Nagy, Joseph Falaky\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43334758268989,"sku":"BVV.0801483689.G","price":19.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0801483689-0.jpg?v=1783702006","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/conversing-with-angels-and-ancients-literary-myths-of-medieval-ireland","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}