BOOK: Charlene M. ESKA, A Raven’s Battle-cry: The Limits of Judgment in the Medieval Irish Legal Tract Anfuigell (Leiden-New York: Brill, 2019). ISBN 978-90-04-39198-7, €90.00

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Brill has published a critical edition and translation of the previously unpublished medieval Irish legal tract Anfuigell.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In A Raven’s Battle-cry Charlene M. Eska presents a critical edition and translation of the previously unpublished medieval Irish legal tract Anfuigell. Although the Old Irish text itself is fragmentary, the copious accompanying commentaries provide a wealth of legal, historical, and linguistic information not found elsewhere in the medieval Irish legal corpus. Anfuigell contains a wide range of topics relating to the role of the judge in deciding difficult cases, including kingship, raiding, poets, shipwreck, marriage, fosterage, divorce, and contracts relating to land and livestock.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Charlene M. Eska, Ph.D. (2006), in Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. Her publications focus on medieval Irish legal texts and manuscripts, and include Cáin Lánamna: An Old Irish Tract on Marriage and Divorce Law (Brill, 2010).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Plates

Introduction

Summary of the Text

Manuscript Sources

Concordances

Editorial Method

Notes on Dating and Orthography

Anfuigell: Text, Variants, Commentary, and Translation

Appendix 1: Text and commentary from source C Appendix 2: Commentary from § 32 source T Appendix 3: Commentary from § 51 source T Appendix 4: List of variant MS readings against CIH Appendix 5: Regarding Aidbred ‘Claiming’ Appendix 6: O’Davoren’s Glossay no. 862(3) and CIH 1452.11–24 Glossary Bibliography Index

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