This is the text of the Inaugural Lecture of the first Professor of Palaeography in the history of the University of Cambridge. It contains an account of the institutional provision for the subject since 1892, and illustrates the interaction of manuscript-studies with those of history, language, and literature by discussing the role played by Gaelic ecclesiastical exiles in continental Europe - and especially in central Europe - in the ninth century. The interrelationships of a series of multilingual manuscripts, written mostly by Irish ecclesiastics, provides the principal evidence for this study of an important aspect of intellectual creativity and transmission of knowledge in the Carolingian world.
- ISBN13 9780521626781
- Publish Date 13 October 1997
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 11 March 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 64
- Language English