TY - BOOK AU - Hayden,Deborah AU - Russell,Paul TI - Grammatica, gramadach and gramadeg : vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales T2 - Studies in the history of the language sciences, SN - 9789027246165 (hb : alk. paper) AV - PB1218 .G736 2016 U1 - 405 SHLS (125) 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Amsterdam PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company KW - Irish language KW - To 1100 KW - Grammar KW - Middle Irish, 1100-1550 KW - Welsh language KW - Study and teaching KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Irish philology KW - Welsh philology KW - Historical linguistics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "The present study briefly considers the vernacular terminology used to describe figurative language in medieval Irish literature, and then offers an analysis of three explicitly allegorical episodes from medieval Irish narrative texts (two in the vernacular and one in Latin) as preliminary groundwork in assessing whether literature which is not explicitly allegorical, but which shares the same images and motifs as explicitly allegorical literature, might also be read as allegory."-- ER -