Classical Literature and Learning in Medieval Irish Narrative
- Submitting institution
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University of Aberdeen
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 157855171
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- D. S. Brewer
- ISBN
- 9781843843849
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This volume contains two sole-authored chapters by O’Connor: one presentation of individual research and one survey-chapter combining individual research with an overview of the field, totalling just over 30,000 words together. The word count, range and depth of research included is much greater than would have been possible within the confines of a single article. As sole editor, O’Connor also led the commissioning, design and revision of the whole volume. The request for double-weighting is made on the basis of these factors, which make the extent of O’Connor’s contribution to the volume equivalent to at least two individual single-weighted articles.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- O’Connor acted as sole author of two chapters in this book (‘Was Classical imitation necessary for the writing of large-scale native Irish sagas?’, 17,748 words, and ‘Irish narrative literature and the Classical tradition, 900-1300’, 12,414 words). He was sole editor of the volume, devised its scope and coverage (and its index), and secured funding to support its publication. It arose from a research colloquium on the reception of Classical literature in mediaeval Ireland, but all the chapters were freshly and much more extensively written for the volume, and five new chapters were commissioned from other leading scholars in the area to ensure full coverage of the most relevant texts. To ensure coherence within the volume, O’Connor invited contributors to share their draft chapters with each other, so that a range of viewpoints could be engaged with, and led the revision process both before and after peer review – a process which took 4 years from colloquium to publication.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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