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NEOPLATONIC THOUGHT IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND: THE EVIDENCE OF "SCÉLA NA ESÉRGI"
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I will examine briefly the overarching Neoplatonic structure of the text; then I will explore in more detail some specific instances of Neoplatonic concepts being transposed from Latin into the vernacular.In other words, the text moves from purification (in the removal of bodily imperfections that will occur at the resurrection) to illumination (in heaven) to union (with other righteous souls and ultimately with God).\nThe marginal and supralineal notes in die Bodleian manuscript demonstrate a concern with language, grammar, and etymology, which could represent the transitional stage between the expression in Latin of the types of ideas mentioned above by Plato, his commentators, and John Scottus Eriugena on the one hand, and the expression in Irish of similar philosophical concepts on the other, as Irish scholars developed a vernacular vocabulary to express the complex philosophical and dieological ideas of die twelfth century.
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“many Irish eschatological texts are homiletic in form, and preaching to the laity, or to a mixed audience, 7 provides one instance where we may be able to observe subtle but tangible differences in the focus of eschatological discussion and the register in which it is communicated.”
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- The date of scribe H is significant in this regard, but has been hody contested on linguistic and palaeographical grounds. See Tomás O Concheanainn, 'The reviser of Leabhar na hUidhre', Eigse, 1 5 (1973-4), 277-88;
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