Medieval Celtic Palaeography

Course goals

At the end of this course, successful participants will be able to:

• transcribe given Irish and Welsh texts accurately and correctly;
• recognize poems in Irish and Welsh manuscripts and be able to present them in a manner appropriate to a modern textual edition;
• prepare texts for a translation;
• digitally encode a transcribed text in XML for publication online

Content

One of the skills students must possess in order to be able to interpret Irish and Welsh texts is the ability to transcribe texts from manuscripts. This skill is of crucial importance, not only for checking existing editions, but also for the comprehending sources that can lead to a wider understanding of Medieval Irish and Welsh language and culture. Therefore, during this course students learn to transcribe such texts and to prepare them so they may serve as a basis for a translation. In addition, students receive a brief introduction to codicology, as well as an introduction to existing electronic corpora and XML-encoding of transcriptions.

Please note that the emphasis in this course is on Irish sources, as transcribing these is much more difficult due to their highly abbreviated nature.

Additional information

Please note: the time slot shown here is not yet final and may still be modified until the 3rd Wednesday in September. 

This course is part of the specialisation "Interpretation and reinterpretation of medieval Celtic Texts" as well as "Language contact and language change in Celtic".

LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major, need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See for more information: https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/