IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1128: Names and Networks in Northern Britain, II: Gaelic Names and Language Change in Medieval Scotland
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | AHRC Project 'Gaelic in Medieval Scotland', Department of Celtic, University of Glasgow |
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| Organiser: | Thomas Owen Clancy, School of Humanities (Celtic & Gaelic), University of Glasgow |
| Moderator/Chair: | Dauvit Broun, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow |
| Paper 1128-a | Gaelic in Medieval Scotland: The View from Fife (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Celtic, Onomastics |
| Paper 1128-b | Gaelic in Medieval Scotland: Settlement Names in Menteith (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Celtic, Onomastics |
| Paper 1128-c | Perambulating the Boundaries of Gaelic: Boundary Texts as a Witness to Language Change (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Celtic, Onomastics |
| Abstract | One of the most dramatic and uncharted changes in Scottish history over the central Middle Ages was the advance of the Gaelic language over most of eastern and southern Scotland, and its rapid decline from many of these same regions by c.1400. This session explores, from a number of angles, the witness of place-names to this period of language change in the 'inter-tidal zone' over which Gaelic first spread and then retreated. |