Browsing by Author "McKenna, Catherine"
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Angels and demons in the pages of Lebor na hUidre
McKenna, Catherine (Colgate University Press, 2011) -
Cyfarwydd as Poet in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi
McKenna, Catherine (The Ohio State University Press, 2017)On two occasions in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi , the figure of Gwydion presents himself in a court as a poet and provides entertainment, presumably in prose, in the form of cyfarwyddyd , a term that has been variously ... -
Heritage Welsh: a study of heritage language as the outcome of minority language acquisition and bilingualism
Boon, Erin Diane (2014-06-06)This dissertation analyzes the language used by 20 adult heritage Welsh speakers now living in London, i.e., bilinguals who shifted to English dominance in childhood, and whose Welsh proficiencies now show divergences from ... -
Latinity, Manuscripts, and the Rhetoric of Conquest in Late-Eleventh-Century Wales
Zeiser, Sarah Elizabeth (2013-02-07)This dissertation explores the complex interactions among written text, language choice, and political context in Wales in the late-eleventh and early-twelfth centuries. I argue that writers in medieval Wales created in ... -
Looking towards India: Nativism and Orientalism in the Literature of Wales, 1300-1600
Conley, Kassandra Leighann (2014-06-06)After the conquest of 1282, Wales increasingly fell under the dominion of England and in 1535, the first Laws in Wales Act officially annexed the country. During this period of political and legal instability, Welsh men ... -
"What Dreams May Come Must Give Us Pause”: Breudwyt Ronabwy and the Red Book of Hergest
McKenna, Catherine (Professor Patrick Sims-Williams at the Department of Welsh, University of Wales, 2009)