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Etchingham, Colman and Swift, Catherine (2004) English and Pictish Terms for Brooch in an 8th-century Irish Law-Text. Medieval Archaeology, 48. pp. 31-49. ISSN 1745-817X
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Abstract
THIS paper seeks to draw to the attention of archaeologists, art historians, and others interested
in material culture, some hitherto overlooked references to brooches in Old Irish legal texts of the
8
th and
9
th centuries. Of particular interest in these references is the fact that they include Old
English and Pictish words for brooches, showing an awareness on the part of the Irish intelligentsia
of the elite metalworking of their neighbours in the British Isles. The extent to which this borrowed
terminology reflects an appreciation of English and Pictish brooch-types different from the Irish
pseudo-penannular of the
8
th century is also discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | English and Pictish Terms; Brooch; 8th-century Irish Law-Text; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History |
| Item ID: | 4686 |
| Depositing User: | Colman Etchingham |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jan 2014 14:37 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Medieval Archaeology |
| Publisher: | Society for Medieval Archaeology (SMA |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/4686 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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