‘A Miracle of Learning’: Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning: Essays in Honour of William O’Sullivan

by Toby Barnard

This volume celebrates the work of William O’Sullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, made more accessible and elucidated the documents in his care. The manuscripts throw new light on the society of Ireland, the place of the learned and literate in that world, and its relations with Britain, Europe and America. Some of these essays clarify technical problems in the making of famous manuscripts, and bring out for the first time their indebtedness to or influence over other manuscripts. Others provide unexpected new information about the reigns of Edward I and James I, Irish provincial society, the process and progress of religious change and the links between settlements in Ireland and North American colonization.

344 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1998

About the author

Dr. Toby Christopher Barnard is an Emeritus Fellow and Tutor in History, Hertford College, University of Oxford.

He has been:
Lecturer in History, Royal Holloway University of London, 1970 - 1976
Fellow and Tutor in History and CUF Lecturer, Hertford College, University of Oxford, Hertford College University of Oxford, 1976 - 2014,
University of Exeter, 1969 - 1970
Emeritus Fellow and Tutor in History, Hertford College University of Oxford, 2015
Fellow and Tutor in History and CUF Lecturer, Hertford College, University of Oxford, Hertford College University of Oxford, 1976

Barnard specialized in the political, social and cultural histories of Ireland and England, c. 1600-1800.

He was elected a UK Fellow, Early Modern History to 1850, of the British Academy.

Source: The British Academy