The Poems of Roderick MacLean: (Ruairidh MacEachainn MhicIllEathain - d. 1553) (Scottish History Society 6th Series, 17) - Hardcover

MacLean, Roderick

 
9780906245477: The Poems of Roderick MacLean: (Ruairidh MacEachainn MhicIllEathain - d. 1553) (Scottish History Society 6th Series, 17)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0906245478 ISBN 13: 9780906245477
Publisher: Scottish History Society, 2022

Synopsis

Roderick MacLean / Ruairidh MacEachainn MhicIllEathan (d. 1553) was commendator of the Abbey of Iona, Bishop of the Isles, and member of an extended kindred who had close connections to Iona and its abbey.

Roderick MacLean / Ruairidh MacEachainn MhicIllEathan (d. 1553) was commendator of the Abbey of Iona, Bishop of the Isles, and member of an extended kindred who had close connections to Iona and its abbey. After studying on the continent he held a series of ecclesiastical posts in Scotland and spent multiple sojourns on church business in Rome. During his time there in 1549 he saw through the press his Ionis Liber, or Book of the Song of Iona, a paraphrase in neo-classical Latin verse of selected chapters from Adomnán's Life of Columba.

Only three copies of this rare Pre-Reformation text survive, one in Aberdeen and two in Perugia, so that Macquarrie and Green's edition makes it accessible to a wider readership for the first time. As well as an edition of the Latin text, they provide an English prose translation, editions and translations of other smaller works by MacLean, extensive commentary, appendices of material in the Vatican Archives relevant to MacLean's career, an extensive bibliography and index. This will be essential reading for any students or scholars interested in Neo-Latin, Gaelic culture, and the Scottish Reformation.

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About the Authors

Alan Macquarrie is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow. He has written extensively on medieval Scotland and in 2012 edited the Legends of Scottish Saints from the Aberdeen Breviary.

Roger Green is Emeritus Professor of Humanity at the University of Glasgow. He has written or edited numerous works on Late Antique and Neo-Latin writing, including editions of the works of George Buchanan and a short title catalogue of Scottish Latin authors in print to 1700

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Publisher
Scottish History Society
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0906245478
ISBN 13 
9780906245477
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
372
Editor
MacQuarrie Dr Alan, Green Roger P H, Williams Dr Kelsey Jackson