Latin culture in early medieval Ireland

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    The impact of epidemics in ancient Greece and early Ireland

    The Covid-19 crisis is a unique event in all of our lives, but it is by no means unique in human history. We have lived through very many mass outbreaks of infectious diseases. It may be some small comfort in the present circumstances to know that we have not just survived epidemics far worse, but in some…

  • Did a medieval Irish manuscript uncover a new word of Old Dutch?

    Did a medieval Irish manuscript uncover a new word of Old Dutch?

    It’s not often that medieval Irish manuscripts make the news – and it’s all the more unusual when they feature on Dutch national media. Last October, the Dutch national newspaper NRC Handelsblad carried a report that a new word of Old Dutch had been discovered in an Irish manuscript. The newspaper reported that the word in question…