| Discipline | History |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Dáibhí Ó Cróinín |
| Publication details | |
| History | Early 1980s-present |
| Publisher | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Peritia |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0332-1592 (print) 2034-6506 (web) |
Peritia is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering Celtic and 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.
Founded and edited by Donnchadh Ó Corráin of University College Cork since the early 1980s [note 1] until 2016, Ó Corráin passed on this role to
Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (NUI Galway) and Elva Johnston (University College Dublin). [1] Ó Cróinín's work had featured in the first edition. [2] 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 hagiographical writing in Iceland". [2] The Irish Times has credited the journal with featuring the work of scholars who might elsewhere have been neglected. [3]
The journal is published by Brepols. [4] It has been available since the early 1980s. [note 1]
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Niall Noígíallach, or Niall of the Nine Hostages, was a legendary, semi-historical Irish king who was the ancestor of the Uí Néill dynasties that dominated Ireland from the 6th to the 10th centuries. He was himself the grandson of King Conn of the Hundred Battles. Historical Irish annalistic and chronicle sources place his reign in the late 4th and early 5th centuries, although modern scholars date him about half a century later.
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