Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Subject "Languages, Literatures, and Cultures"
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Beati immaculati in via: Sin and reconciliation among the céli Dé of Tallaght and Terryglass
(NUI Galway, 2023-02-16)This dissertation researches the so-called céli Dé of the eighth and ninth centuries, in order to elucidate and reconstruct their beliefs on sin and reconciliation. Its contents are as follows: after a foreword that summarily ... -
Constructing the good king: Biblical exempla in Sedulous Scottus’ De Rectoribus Christianis
(NUI Galway, 2023-06-13)De Rectoribus Christianis (DRC) is a mid-ninth century political treatise, written by the Irish scholar Sedulius Scottus. The text is an example of the specula principum (‘mirrors for princes’) genre, and it instructs ... -
Describing the indescribable: Lexical obscurity and biblical exegesis in early medieval Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-27)In the seventh century, medieval Irish scholars, who had received and internalised an educational system that placed the Bible at its very centre, began to produce texts that were marked by innovation in artistic style and ... -
Exploring temporality in first-person illness narratives (France, 1910-2017)
(NUI Galway, 2023-06-21)This thesis considers how first-person written accounts might provide an understanding of the lived experience of illness in France by exploring how temporality is evoked and expressed in texts drawn from a French ... -
Music and the early Irish Church
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-16)The project’s aim is to reconstruct the conceptualization of music in the context of early medieval Irish ecclesiastical education through a systematic analysis of the influence of the Church Fathers on Hiberno-Latin ... -
“No Mind to Lose”? A critical analysis of late 20th-century fantasies of neuroscience and digital media
(NUI Galway, 2023-08-21)The shadow of Cartesian dualism still lingers over the intellectual and imaginative landscape of the West. Increasingly, over the past half-century, its presence has delineated the contours of material development, as ... -
Text creation and text reproduction in Irish folk culture: a study of folklore texts collected by adults and by children
(NUI Galway, 2023-06-19)In his 2006 TED talk, Sir Ken Robinson proposed the idea that public schools offer a disservice to children by stripping them of creativity in the process of education (Robinson, 2006). Creativity being regarded as an ... -
A Trojan cycle for late antiquity: Intertextuality in late epic and its digital representation
(NUI Galway, 2022-04-19)This work focuses on three late Greek epic poems: the Posthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna, The Sack of Troy by Triphiodorus and the Abduction of Helen by Colluthus (ca. 3rd-5th centuries CE). These are reworkings of the ...