Neoplatonic Thought in Medieval Ireland: the Evidence of Scéla na esérgi

Published July 3, 2016

‘Neoplatonic Thought in Medieval Ireland: the Evidence of Scéla na esérgi’, Medium Ævum 78 (2009), 216-230.

This study of the Middle Irish eschatological sermon ‘Scéla na esérgi’ argues that it uses Irish vocabulary, transposed or translated from Latin, to articulate a philosophy of the general resurrection of mankind which is derived from Christian Neoplatonism. This article won the Medium Aevum Essay Prize (2008-9).

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