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'''''Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland''''' is an annual Irish [[academic journal]] "devoted to Irish and Insular medieval studies as seen in the context of the European middle ages and the heritage from antiquity, and to European medieval studies generally."<ref>http://www.ucc.ie/peritia.</ref> The editors are [[Donnchadh Ó Corráin]] (editor) and [[Dáibhí Ó Cróinín]] (review editor). The journal is published by Brepols Publishers.

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'''''Peritia''''' is an annual peer-reviewed [[academic journal]] covering [[Celtic studies|Celtic]] and [[Insular art|Insular]] [[medieval studies]] in the context of the European [[Middle Ages]] and European medieval studies in general. It is published by the Medieval Academy of Ireland.

==ContentsHistory==

''Peritia'' was founded and edited by [[Donnchadh Ó Corráin]] of [[University College Cork]] since the early 1980s{{refn|group=note|name=Alpha}} until 2016, Ó Corráin passed on this role to [[Dáibhí Ó Cróinín]] ([[NUI Galway]]) and Elva Johnston ([[University College Dublin]]).<ref name=ils>{{cite journal |first=Freya |last=Verstraten Veach |url=https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=irishliterary20160901-01.2.9 |title=Festschrift for a Scholar |journal=Irish Literary Supplement |volume=36 |number=1 |date=1 September 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216002212/https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=irishliterary20160901-01.2.9 |archivedate=16 February 2019}}</ref> Ó Cróinín's work had featured in the first edition.<ref name=reviews_and_short_notices/> [[Patrick Wormald]] also noted two "firsts" in English language scholarship in his review of that edition: Jonas's great life of [[Columbanus]] being given its first "sustained treatment" in the language (by [[Ian N. Wood]]) and a description of "the beginnings of [[Hagiography|hagiographical]] writing in [[Iceland]]".<ref name=reviews_and_short_notices>{{cite news |first=Patrick |last=Wormald |authorlink=Patrick Wormald |title=Reviews and short notices |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |volume=24 |number=93 |date=May 1984 |jstor=30008029}}</ref>

:''Note that these lists are incomplete''

''[[The Irish Times]]'' has credited the journal with featuring the work of scholars who might elsewhere have been neglected.<ref name=bibliographic_monument>{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/historian-produced-a-bibliographic-monument-to-his-patriotism-1.3311170 |title=Historian produced 'a bibliographic monument to his patriotism' |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |date=30 November 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712053720/https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/historian-produced-a-bibliographic-monument-to-his-patriotism-1.3311170 |archivedate=12 July 2018}}</ref>

===''Peritia'' 17/18 (2003/2004)===

==Publication history==

*Smyth, Marina. "The date and origin of ''[[Liber de ordine creaturarum]]''." 1-38.

The journal is published by [[Brepols]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brepols.net/Pages/BrowseBySeries.aspx?TreeSeries=PERIT |title=Peritia |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216012405/http://www.brepols.net/Pages/BrowseBySeries.aspx?TreeSeries=PERIT |archivedate=16 February 2019}}</ref> It has been available since the early 1980s.{{refn|group=note|name=Alpha}}

*Carey, John. "The obscurantists and the sea-monster: reflections on the ''[[Hisperica Famina]]''." 40-60.

*Howlett, David. "Early Insular Latin Poetry." 61-109.

*Flechner, Roy. "The making of the Canons of Theodore." 121-43.

*Howlett, David. "The prologue to the ''[[Collectio Canonum Hibernensis]]''. 144-9.

*Howlett, David. "Numerical punctilio in Patrick’s ''Confessio''." 150-3.

*Stansbury, Mark. "The composition of [[Adomnán]]'s ''[[Vita Columbae]]''." 154-82.

*Fraser, James E. "Adomnán, Cumméne Ailbe, and the Picts." 183-98.

*Tanaka, Miho. "Iona and the kingship of Dál Riata in Adomnán’s ''[[Vita Columbae]]''." 199-214.

*Clancy, Thomas Owen. "Diarmait ''sapientissimus'': the career of Diarmait, ''dalta'' Daigre, Abbot of Iona." 215-32.

*Downham, Clare. "The Vikings in [[Southern Uí Néill]] to 1014." 233-55.

*Rekdal, Jan Erik. "Vikings and saints - encounters ''vestan um haf''." 256-75.

*Purcell, Emer. "The expulsion of the [[Ostmen]], 1169-71: the documentary evidence." 276-94.

*Jaski, Bart. "The genealogical section of the [[Psalter of Cashel]]." 295-337.

*Baumgarten, Rolf. "''Co nómad n-ó'': an early Irish socio-legal timescale." 338-56.

*McGowan, Morgan. "Royal succession in earlier medieval Ireland: the fiction of [[Tanistry]]." 357-81.

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*Warntjes, Immo. "The alteration of the Kingship of Tara 734-944." 394-432.

*Mac Lean, Douglas. "Scribe as artist, not monk: the canon tables of [[Ailerán]] 'the wise' and the [[Book of Kells]]." 433-70.

*Krasnodebska-D'Aughton, M. "The homily on the Epiphany in the ''Catechesis Cracoviensis'' and the four epiphanies on Irish high crosses." 471-94.

*Woods, David. "Acorns, the plague and the '[[Iona Chronicle]]'." 495-502.

*Bourke, Cormac. "On the ''Ballach Damnatan''.". 503-5.

*Young, Simon. "''In gentibus dis persisti nos'': the British diaspora in [[St Patrick|Patrick]] and [[Gildas]]." 505-6.

*Holford-Strevens, Leofranc. "Old Irish ''Cétemnide'', Latin ''Centumgeminus''." 507.

*Young, Simon. "A Briton in twelfth-century Santiago de Compostela." 507-8.

*Book reviews. 509-62.

===''Peritia'' 16 (2002)===

*Menzer, M. J. 'Speaking Brittonice : vowel quantities and musical length in [[Ælfric]]'s Grammar'. 26-39.

*Woolf, Alex. "An interpolation in the text of Gildas's ''[[De excidio Britanniae]]''." 161-7.

===''Peritia'' 1-13 (1982-1999)===

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==Notes==

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{{refn|group=note|name=Alpha|The ''Irish Literary Supplement'' gives 1980 as the year of foundation, ''[[The Irish Times]]'' 1982.<ref name=ils/><ref name=bibliographic_monument/> [[Patrick Wormald]] in ''Irish Historical Studies'' indicates first publication as having been in 1982.<ref name=reviews_and_short_notices/>}}

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==External linksReferences==

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*[http://www.ucc.ie/peritia ''Peritia'' webpage]

**[http://www.ucc.ie/peritia/contents.html Contents vols. 1 (1982) - 13 (1999), with abstracts]

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