The Manuscripts That Saved Irish Mythology
Irish mythology survives because of four handwritten books. What each contains, where it survives, and what would be lost if the scriptorium had burned the wrong night.
Irish mythology survives because of four handwritten books. What each contains, where it survives, and what would be lost if the scriptorium had burned the wrong night.
Praise is a political act. The ode never stopped being a weapon. It just got shelved where the comfortable people put things they stopped knowing how to use.
The rondeau brings its first line back twice. Each time, the words are the same. Each time, they mean something different. That is the whole argument.