07 May 2020
A weekly series for an interdisciplinary, non-specialist readership in which the editor of the Academy's Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources outlines how insights from linguistics can help the historian.
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Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources
DMLCS helps build a research infrastructure to interpret Western European thought from writings penned across a thousand years of history.
DMLCS is an integrated database and dictionary project, designed to contribute to the fields of Patristic, Medieval, Celtic, and Latin studies by researching, compiling and publishing suitable scholarly works, both in electronic and in conventional media. As such, the project takes its place as one of the family of Medieval Latin dictionary enterprises being conducted across Europe, each of which has as its mission the detailed scientific analysis and interpretation of the Latin texts written within a particular geographical area.
In the case of DMLCS, the relevant area consists of the territories that were Celtic-speaking in the early Middle Ages (Ireland, the former Roman Britain, Brittany, Scotland, and the Isle of Man), as well as the monasteries that had been founded by Irish pilgrims as they travelled across much of the Continent.
The dedicated DMLCS website, kindly hosted by Queen’s University Belfast, is frequently updated to keep pace with progress on the enterprise. As well as giving news of the project’s various research strands, the site offers access to peer-reviewed academic content that derives from the work.
News and Updates
Read about the latest initiatives from the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources
14 May 2020
The DMLCS editor, Dr Anthony Harvey, continues his weekly series for an interdisciplinary, non-specialist readership.
20 May 2020
The third part of our weekly series for an interdisciplinary, non-specialist readership, written by Dr Anthony Harvey, project editor at DMLCS.
27 May 2020
The fourth part of Dr Anthony Harvey's weekly series, designed for a non-specialist readership. It's not too late to catch up: the earlier parts are all still here!
03 June 2020
This instalment looks at how a piece of Strasbourg language planning, having successfully averted war in Europe for a while, went on to affect the subsequent history of the whole world.
10 June 2020
This instalment outlines how we can scientifically retrieve the original pronunciation of ancient or medieval texts — even when the sounds of the letters are known to have changed over time.
17 June 2020
This instalment concludes the series, with an example of linguistics and archaeology working hand in glove to help date a recently discovered pair of Irish-language inscriptions written in the distinctive alphabet known as ogham.
06 May 2020
Selected by Dr Joseph Flahive of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources, John Scottus Eriugena was a prolific medieval scholar of Latin and Greek, 'rediscovered' in the nineteenth century. His biography is presented here as part of our ‘Favourite DIB lives’ series chosen by in-house academics and friends of the RIA.
06 April 2020
Selected by Dr Anthony Harvey of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources (DMLCS), Virgilius Maro Grammaticus was an enigmatic author and a gifted coiner of new Latin words. His biography is part of a series of DIB entries selected your reading pleasure during this challenging time.
Resources
St. Patrick's Confessio Hypertext Stack »
DMLCS website »
Interpretative Publications »