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> From: francine nicholson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:17:21 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] Irish social history
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>Thank you very much, Francine. I had a suspicion that that might be the case, but hoped that I was wrong. Still, magna est veritas.
Bernadette
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> P.W. Joyce, like many of his contemporaries, is best handled with a large
> dose of caution. I haven't read Joyce cover-to-cover, nor do I own a copy,
> but I've been party to discussions where we tried to figure out what sources
> he was using for his statements and descriptions. Most people I know
> wouldn't disregard his statements outright because there's reason to believe
> that he had access to written and oral sources that have been lost. However,
> one of his sources definitely was his own imagination, hence the need for
> caution, especially for something like descriptions of "druids." After all,
> almost every description of "druids" written in Ireland dates from long
> after the last druid died (a couple of seventh-century references may date
> to a period when a few die-hards were still drawing breath and some of their
> teachings almost certainly survived in adapted form). His descriptions of
> customs of his time are valuable. His descriptions of customs from earlier
> times (including druids) are useful primarily for historiographers and those
> interested in what nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Irish people
> believed about their origins.
> Hope that helps.
>
> Francine Nicholson
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