Professional Lay Scholars and Annals of Historical Works
Categories: Ireland
But if original literature is absent, we have still remaining important books compiled during this period. Mostly the work of trained scholars in whose families were continued from generation to generation the traditions of Gaelic culture, they were carefully preserved either by those families of scholars or by the chiefs to whom they were attached. [...]
But if original literature is absent, we have still remaining important books compiled during this period. Mostly the work of trained scholars in whose families were continued from generation to generation the traditions of Gaelic culture, they were carefully preserved either by those families of scholars or by the chiefs to whom they were attached. Unlike the " Books " of earlier times, they are not the productions of monks preserved in the monasteries in which they were compiled, but are the ... Read More
