THE EARLIEST STRATA
THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EARLY MEDIEVAL TOPONYMY OF
IRELAND AND SCOTLAND
An Dara Comhdháil Idirnáisiúnta ar Logainmníocht Luathmheánaoiseach
na hÉireann agus na hAlban
An Dàrna Co-labhairt Eadar-nàiseanta mu Ainmean-Àite na h-Èirinn is
na h-Alba aig toiseach nam Meadhan Aoisean
12th / 13th / 14th November 2009
School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts,
Drama and Film Centre, Auditorium 2,
20 University Square, Belfast
Organised by Paul Tempan (QUB), Kelly Kilpatrick (Oxford),
Liam Ó hAisibéil (NUIG), Peter McNiven (Glasgow) & Judyta Szacillo (QUB)
and the School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts,
Queen’s University, Belfast
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 12th NOVEMBER
09.00 REGISTRATION AND WELCOME
09.30-10.10 Nollaig Ó Muraíle: Keynote paper, ‘The Earliest Irish
Place-names — Status Quaestionis’
10.15-10.55 Catherine Swift: ‘Church names and their significance
for the cult of Patrick’
11.00-11.20 BREAK: Tea and coffee
11.20-12.00 Short Reports on Current Onomastic Research: Ireland
12.05-12.45 Kelly Kilpatrick: ‘Place-names in a Hagiographic
Tradition of St Brigit of Kildare: Analysis of Vita Prima and Bethu
Brigte’
12.45-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-14.40 Thomas Owen Clancy: Keynote paper, ‘The Place-Names
of the Earliest Scottish Records’
14.45-15.25 Jacob King: ‘A Lost Aber- Name in Speyside’
15.30-15.50 BREAK: Tea and coffee
15.50-16.30 Peter McNiven: ‘P-Celtic place-names in Menteith:
British or Pictish?’
16.35-17.15 Guto Rhys: ‘Towards a phonology of “Pictish”’
20:00 Public Lecture
Venue: PFC G06 Nollaig Ó Muraíle: ‘John O Donovan — “most able
and judicious Irish scholar and topographer”’
FRIDAY 13th NOVEMBER
09.30-10.10 Richard Coates: ‘Men from the East, names in the
West: an approach to some problematic island-names of Ireland and
Britain’
10.15-10.55 Short Reports on Current Onomastic Research: Scotland
11.00-11.20 BREAK: Tea and coffee
11.20-12.00 Aengus Finnegan: ‘The Placenames of Bruidhean Da
Choga, some possible identifications’
12.05-12.45 Paul Tempan: ‘Carbad in Irish place-names: chariot or
boulder?’
12.50-13.30 Stephen Digney: ‘Iudeu and Stirling: a possible example
of place name change’
13.30-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-15.10 Richard Warner: ‘Ptolemy's Ireland - observations
from an archaeologist’
15.15-15.55 Grigory Bondarenko: ‘Goidelic hydronyms in Ptolemy’s
Geography: Myth behind the name’
16.00-16.20 BREAK: Tea and coffee
16.20-17.00 Emma Nic Cárthaigh: ‘Difficulties determining early
medieval Irish tribal boundaries: Dál, Dealbhna, Déise’
17.05-17.45 Liam Ó hAisibéil: ‘The Boldly Odd Hills of Northern Roscommon’
17.50-18.20 CLOSURE
Time TBC Conference Dinner
SATURDAY 14th NOVEMBER
9.30 Meet at DFC for excursion to Emain Macha / Navan Fort and
Armagh City (with optional extension to visit royal site of Clogher
after lunch). Guided by Kay Muhr and Richard Warner. Returning to
Belfast at 15:30, or 18:00 for those continuing to Clogher.
For further information, contact Paul Tempan, (028) 90973890,
p.tempan@qub.ac.uk or Clare Marks, Secretary, Irish and Celtic
Studies, (028) 90975366, celtic@qub.ac.uk
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Liminal Spaces: A Symposium in Honor of Pamela Sheingorn
We would like to remind you that Liminal Spaces: A Symposium in Honor of Pamela Sheingorn will be held at Princeton University on October 30. The symposium will feature the kind of interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged scholarship that has been a hallmark of Professor Sheingorn's work. Papers will highlight work that explores spaces "in-between" -- between text/image/reader/viewer, performance/spectator, medieval/modern.
This event, organized by Elina Gertsman and Jill Stevenson, is hosted by the Index of Christian Art. It was made possible by the generosity of the ICA and the City University of New York.
Participants include Jonathan J. G. Alexander (NYU); Adelaide Bennett (Princeton); Glenn Burger (CUNY); Madeline H. Caviness (Tufts); Robert L. Clark (KSU); Susannah Crowder (CUNY); Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton); Rachel Dressler (Albany); Rick Emmerson (Manhattan College); Colum Hourihane (Princeton); Lucy Freeman Sandler (NYU); and Kathryn Smith (NYU). Full program is available on the ICA's webiste (http://ica.princeton.edu).
Please note the change of venue: the conference will take place in McCormick Hall, room 101 (not in the Frist Campus Center as initially announced).
Spaces are limited and registration is required. There is no charge for the symposium. To register please contact Robin Dunham (rdunham@princeton.edu) before 20 October 2009.
Please e-mail us at gertsman@siu.edu or jstevenson@mmm.edu if you have any questions.
This event, organized by Elina Gertsman and Jill Stevenson, is hosted by the Index of Christian Art. It was made possible by the generosity of the ICA and the City University of New York.
Participants include Jonathan J. G. Alexander (NYU); Adelaide Bennett (Princeton); Glenn Burger (CUNY); Madeline H. Caviness (Tufts); Robert L. Clark (KSU); Susannah Crowder (CUNY); Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton); Rachel Dressler (Albany); Rick Emmerson (Manhattan College); Colum Hourihane (Princeton); Lucy Freeman Sandler (NYU); and Kathryn Smith (NYU). Full program is available on the ICA's webiste (http://ica.princeton.edu).
Please note the change of venue: the conference will take place in McCormick Hall, room 101 (not in the Frist Campus Center as initially announced).
Spaces are limited and registration is required. There is no charge for the symposium. To register please contact Robin Dunham (rdunham@princeton.edu) before 20 October 2009.
Please e-mail us at gertsman@siu.edu or jstevenson@mmm.edu if you have any questions.
Digitisation of the Goussen Library
the Goussen library collection is a specialist library for oriental
church history. It contains printed books in Western classical and
modern languages, but predominantly printed books in oriental languages
such as Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Arabic, Armenian and Georgian
languages from the 16th to the 20th century (the focus is on the 18th
and the 19th century). The former owner Heinrich Goussen (1863 – 1927)
collected nearly every printed book within the language groups that had
ever been published about the subject. The collection contains numerous
rare or valuable oriental printed books. There could hardly a collection
be put together as completely as here, not even from the holdings of
large European libraries.
In 2007 the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn digitised approx.
850 printed books of the Goussen library collection under a programme of
the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to preserve its holdings. It
includes all titles published in Europe until 1800, all publications in
the original language as well as all publications that were published
outside Europe. For copyright reasons the year 1900 was chosen as the
last year of publication to be included in the digitisation project. The
digitisation was generally conducted by means of a microfilm, which was
produced first. Books with special features (book(s or items) printed in
red and black ink, items with illustrations, interleaved copies as well
as most of the printed books published until 1800) were digitised in
colour.
You can find the images right here:
http://s2w.hbz-nrw.de/ulbbn/nav/classification/16431?lang=en
If you have any questions or comments regarding our project please don´t
hesitate to contact us.
church history. It contains printed books in Western classical and
modern languages, but predominantly printed books in oriental languages
such as Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Arabic, Armenian and Georgian
languages from the 16th to the 20th century (the focus is on the 18th
and the 19th century). The former owner Heinrich Goussen (1863 – 1927)
collected nearly every printed book within the language groups that had
ever been published about the subject. The collection contains numerous
rare or valuable oriental printed books. There could hardly a collection
be put together as completely as here, not even from the holdings of
large European libraries.
In 2007 the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn digitised approx.
850 printed books of the Goussen library collection under a programme of
the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to preserve its holdings. It
includes all titles published in Europe until 1800, all publications in
the original language as well as all publications that were published
outside Europe. For copyright reasons the year 1900 was chosen as the
last year of publication to be included in the digitisation project. The
digitisation was generally conducted by means of a microfilm, which was
produced first. Books with special features (book(s or items) printed in
red and black ink, items with illustrations, interleaved copies as well
as most of the printed books published until 1800) were digitised in
colour.
You can find the images right here:
http://s2w.hbz-nrw.de/ulbbn/nav/classification/16431?lang=en
If you have any questions or comments regarding our project please don´t
hesitate to contact us.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Medieval News of the Week
Extreme Archaeology As Experts Abseil On Sea Cliff At Castle Of Old Wick
Rare coins find excites experts
A new angle on the Saxons
Clean sweep for the metal detectives
Ancient crucifix found near Twyford
Basilica and martyr tomb discovered at Zrze archaeological site
New Twist on Staffordshire Hoard: Lichfield Cathedral claim on historic
Staffordshire hoard
Scandinavians' genealogy studied
Pennies from William the Conqueror's reign unearthed in the Cotswolds
A new runestone discovered and studied: "Ek Naudigastir" - mer om
Hogganviksteinen
Rare coins find excites experts
A new angle on the Saxons
Clean sweep for the metal detectives
Ancient crucifix found near Twyford
Basilica and martyr tomb discovered at Zrze archaeological site
New Twist on Staffordshire Hoard: Lichfield Cathedral claim on historic
Staffordshire hoard
Scandinavians' genealogy studied
Pennies from William the Conqueror's reign unearthed in the Cotswolds
A new runestone discovered and studied: "Ek Naudigastir" - mer om
Hogganviksteinen
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Dante?s Volume from Alpha to Omega: a Graduate Symposium on the Poet?s Universe
Dante?s Volume from Alpha to Omega: a Graduate Symposium on the Poet?s
Universe
Yale University, March 26-27, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University)
Call for Papers
On behalf of the Department of Italian Language and Literature, we are pleased
to announce a Graduate Student Symposium on Dante, to be held on March 26-27,
2010 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Dante?s Divine Comedy is a totalizing vision?a work emanating from and
culminating in the poet?s glimpse of a universe ?bound with love in a
single volume.? In the 21st century, the goals of universal digitization and
constant accessibility that mark our information age might seem far removed
from Dante?s vatic rendering of the cosmos, and yet our technological models
of thought might equally be understood as the current form of an encyclopedic
impulse that stretches back to (and well beyond) the 14th century. Dante?s
Volume from Alpha to Omega will explore how the encyclopedism of today can
enrich, inform, or obscure our understanding of Dante?s universe and its
poetic representation.
In the interests of interdisciplinarity, paper topics may consider,
but are not
limited to the following:
-Receptions of Dante: commentary, exegesis, and philology
-Representations of Dante: the visual, acoustic, and cinematic arts
-Dante and the place of language
-Dante and the sciences
-Poetry as knowledge and self-knowledge
-In the shadow of the Comedy: the ?minor? works
-Nature, necessity, and freedom in the Comedy
-The world outside the secretissima camera: social/institutional history in
Dante?s time
-Justice earthly and divine
-Dante and the lyric tradition
-Theology, history, and the politics of exile
-Classical and medieval theories of love
-Ethics and psychology
-Style and rhetoric
-Theological and philosophical debates in the thirteenth century
Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes (approximately 9-10 pages of
double-spaced text) and may be in Italian or in English.
Please submit an anonymous abstract (no longer than 250 words) and, on a
separate page, a cover sheet with the title of your paper, your name,
affiliation, and contact information (including telephone and e-mail address).
Kindly send this information as Microsoft Word file attachment to
yaledantesymposium@gmail.com by November 15, 2009. Further
information will be
available on the events webpage of the Yale Italian Department
http://www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html as the symposium draws nearer.
Universe
Yale University, March 26-27, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University)
Call for Papers
On behalf of the Department of Italian Language and Literature, we are pleased
to announce a Graduate Student Symposium on Dante, to be held on March 26-27,
2010 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Dante?s Divine Comedy is a totalizing vision?a work emanating from and
culminating in the poet?s glimpse of a universe ?bound with love in a
single volume.? In the 21st century, the goals of universal digitization and
constant accessibility that mark our information age might seem far removed
from Dante?s vatic rendering of the cosmos, and yet our technological models
of thought might equally be understood as the current form of an encyclopedic
impulse that stretches back to (and well beyond) the 14th century. Dante?s
Volume from Alpha to Omega will explore how the encyclopedism of today can
enrich, inform, or obscure our understanding of Dante?s universe and its
poetic representation.
In the interests of interdisciplinarity, paper topics may consider,
but are not
limited to the following:
-Receptions of Dante: commentary, exegesis, and philology
-Representations of Dante: the visual, acoustic, and cinematic arts
-Dante and the place of language
-Dante and the sciences
-Poetry as knowledge and self-knowledge
-In the shadow of the Comedy: the ?minor? works
-Nature, necessity, and freedom in the Comedy
-The world outside the secretissima camera: social/institutional history in
Dante?s time
-Justice earthly and divine
-Dante and the lyric tradition
-Theology, history, and the politics of exile
-Classical and medieval theories of love
-Ethics and psychology
-Style and rhetoric
-Theological and philosophical debates in the thirteenth century
Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes (approximately 9-10 pages of
double-spaced text) and may be in Italian or in English.
Please submit an anonymous abstract (no longer than 250 words) and, on a
separate page, a cover sheet with the title of your paper, your name,
affiliation, and contact information (including telephone and e-mail address).
Kindly send this information as Microsoft Word file attachment to
yaledantesymposium@gmail.com by November 15, 2009. Further
information will be
available on the events webpage of the Yale Italian Department
http://www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html as the symposium draws nearer.
Call for Papers: International Symposium on Rabbula of Edessa
Call for Papers: International Symposium on Rabbula of Edessa
1600 Anniversary of his Enthronement
Theme: Rabbula and the Peshitta
(1)Rabbula is credited by some with the origin of the Peshitta. F. Burkitt argued for this position while A. Voobus contended that the origins of the Peshitta were prior to Rabbula. In defence of Burkitt, M. Black challenged Voobus by questioning the dating of his pre-Rabbula evidence such as the dating of the Syriac Acts of John. Black conceeded that Voobus had a point in that Rabbula toward the end of his life quoted the Old Syriac rather than the Peshitta in his translation of Cyril's De recta fide but countered that the Peshitta was not a stable text. The development of the Peshitta centers around the life and writings of Bishop Rabbula. It is ground zero for the understanding of Syriac biblical manuscript history.
(2)Several senior scholars have been invited to present papers and lead forums
(3)Call for Papers: We invite scholars and interested parties, especially graduate students, to submit papers for peer review and if accepted will be published under the imprint of New Sinai Press June 2011. Papers in English, French, and Spanish are welcome. Papers shall be read by their authors or representatives at the Universitidad Autonoma de Puerto Plata, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, January 2-4. Target date for submission is June 2010.
(4)Housing: Hacienda Lifestyles Resort
(5)Grants are available to underwrite travel, food, and housing for the three day conference.
(6)Direct inquires to : the Rev. Fr. Dale A. Johnson at frbarhanna@yahoo.com, 1 (809) 257-7246 or write to St. Ephrem Syriac Mission, Calle Jose del Carmen Ariza, Puerto Plata, Republica Dominicana.
(7)Follow conference developments and access information about the Dominican Republic and a Conference in Paradise at rabbula.wordpress.com.
1600 Anniversary of his Enthronement
Theme: Rabbula and the Peshitta
(1)Rabbula is credited by some with the origin of the Peshitta. F. Burkitt argued for this position while A. Voobus contended that the origins of the Peshitta were prior to Rabbula. In defence of Burkitt, M. Black challenged Voobus by questioning the dating of his pre-Rabbula evidence such as the dating of the Syriac Acts of John. Black conceeded that Voobus had a point in that Rabbula toward the end of his life quoted the Old Syriac rather than the Peshitta in his translation of Cyril's De recta fide but countered that the Peshitta was not a stable text. The development of the Peshitta centers around the life and writings of Bishop Rabbula. It is ground zero for the understanding of Syriac biblical manuscript history.
(2)Several senior scholars have been invited to present papers and lead forums
(3)Call for Papers: We invite scholars and interested parties, especially graduate students, to submit papers for peer review and if accepted will be published under the imprint of New Sinai Press June 2011. Papers in English, French, and Spanish are welcome. Papers shall be read by their authors or representatives at the Universitidad Autonoma de Puerto Plata, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, January 2-4. Target date for submission is June 2010.
(4)Housing: Hacienda Lifestyles Resort
(5)Grants are available to underwrite travel, food, and housing for the three day conference.
(6)Direct inquires to : the Rev. Fr. Dale A. Johnson at frbarhanna@yahoo.com, 1 (809) 257-7246 or write to St. Ephrem Syriac Mission, Calle Jose del Carmen Ariza, Puerto Plata, Republica Dominicana.
(7)Follow conference developments and access information about the Dominican Republic and a Conference in Paradise at rabbula.wordpress.com.
Five 10th century Arabic Christian treatises
Five 10th century Arabic Christian treatises originally published by Paul Sbath in "Vingt traités philosophiques et theologiques" (Cairo, 1929) are now online here:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/index.htm#Twenty_theological_and_philosophical_treatises
These new English translations are followed by a transcription of the Arabic. All are public domain; use them as you like.
15. Yahya ibn Adi - On the Truth of the Gospel by Way of Reasoning from Proofs
16. Yahya ibn Adi - On the Differences in the _Expressions in the Gospels and their Meanings
17. Yahya ibn Adi - On our saying "and became incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary"
18. Abu al-Khayr ibn al-Tayyib - Refutation of the Muslims who accuse the Christians of Believing in Three Gods
19. Abu al-Faraj `Abdallah ibn al-Tayyib - On Knowledge and Miracles
Numbers 15-17 are by Yahya ibn `Adi. From Graf II 233-249: He was a Jacobite, born in 893 at Tikrit, went to Baghdad and studied in the philosophical school there. Died 13 August 974. A voluminous writer. Sbath pp. 168-171 contains a treatise on the truth of the Gospel, using syllogisms. p. 171f is another similar treatise; p. 172-175 on the credal statement, "He became flesh by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary."
Number 18. Abu al-Khayr ibn al-Tayyib (Graf II 344-348) A Copt, writing between 1204 and 1245. Sbath p. 176-178 prints an extract only of his book "The medicine of understanding", 24 chapters against the attacks of Moslem polemicists.
Number 19. Abu al-Faraj ibn al-Tayyib (Graf II 160-176) An Iraqi Nestorian, philosopher, physician, monk and priest in the first half of the 11th century. Another voluminous writer, including massive biblical commentaries on the Psalms and Gospels. Sbath prints p.179f, a work on miracles and philosophy.
The site contains a large collection of public domain English translations of patristic literature, available here:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers
If you would like to support the work of the site, a CDROM is also available for sale here:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/all_the_fathers_on_cd.htm
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/index.htm#Twenty_theological_and_philosophical_treatises
These new English translations are followed by a transcription of the Arabic. All are public domain; use them as you like.
15. Yahya ibn Adi - On the Truth of the Gospel by Way of Reasoning from Proofs
16. Yahya ibn Adi - On the Differences in the _Expressions in the Gospels and their Meanings
17. Yahya ibn Adi - On our saying "and became incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary"
18. Abu al-Khayr ibn al-Tayyib - Refutation of the Muslims who accuse the Christians of Believing in Three Gods
19. Abu al-Faraj `Abdallah ibn al-Tayyib - On Knowledge and Miracles
Numbers 15-17 are by Yahya ibn `Adi. From Graf II 233-249: He was a Jacobite, born in 893 at Tikrit, went to Baghdad and studied in the philosophical school there. Died 13 August 974. A voluminous writer. Sbath pp. 168-171 contains a treatise on the truth of the Gospel, using syllogisms. p. 171f is another similar treatise; p. 172-175 on the credal statement, "He became flesh by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary."
Number 18. Abu al-Khayr ibn al-Tayyib (Graf II 344-348) A Copt, writing between 1204 and 1245. Sbath p. 176-178 prints an extract only of his book "The medicine of understanding", 24 chapters against the attacks of Moslem polemicists.
Number 19. Abu al-Faraj ibn al-Tayyib (Graf II 160-176) An Iraqi Nestorian, philosopher, physician, monk and priest in the first half of the 11th century. Another voluminous writer, including massive biblical commentaries on the Psalms and Gospels. Sbath prints p.179f, a work on miracles and philosophy.
The site contains a large collection of public domain English translations of patristic literature, available here:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers
If you would like to support the work of the site, a CDROM is also available for sale here:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/all_the_fathers_on_cd.htm
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