{"id":10525,"date":"2018-02-03T23:29:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T23:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=10525"},"modified":"2018-02-04T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T00:07:09","slug":"bernhardt-house-2018-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/bernhardt-house-2018-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernhardt-House (2018 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Dr. Phillip A. Bernhardt-House<br \/>\n(<em>Skagit Valley College, Whidbey Island Campus<\/em>)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>\u201cChrist and the Irish Gods:<br \/>\nTraces of Polytheism in Medieval Irish Magical Texts\u201d<\/h2>\n<h3>Abstract of Paper<br \/>\nTo be presented at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies<br \/>\n(Kalamazoo, 2018)<\/h3>\n<h4>Session on<br \/>\n&#8220;Celtic Magic Texts&#8221;<\/h4>\n<h4>Sponsored by the <strong>Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><br \/>\nand the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.societasmagica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Societas Magica<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>Organized by Phillip A. Bernhardt\u2013House<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2018-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">2018 Congress Program<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>[<em>Published on 2 February 2018<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>One of the earliest writings with a medieval Irish provenance \u2014 the <em>Confessio<\/em> of St. Patrick \u2014 contains a potentially precedent-setting instance in which a potential invocation of <em>Helios<\/em>, the Greek solar titan\/deity, assists the saint in overcoming torment by Satan.\u00a0 Timothy Powell calls this \u201cinclusive monotheism,\u201d a notion that he suggests comes from the context of late antiquity, in which a tendency toward solar monotheism amongst pagan societies then merged with Christian monotheism. One can also suggest that in Christian tradition, particularly in monasteries where the Psalter was chanted regularly, the various statements that \u201cGod is great amongst the gods\u201d could easily be employed in the context of dealing with polytheist traditions in various cultures and subordinating their divine powers to the Trinity.\u00a0 Such might be the case with several early Irish incantations and protection prayers that invoke both polytheist deities and the Christian God alongside one another.<\/p>\n<p>This examination will cover two relatively straightforward cases in the St. Gall incantations that mention <em>Goibniu<\/em> (the Irish smith god) and <em>Dian C\u00e9cht<\/em> (the Irish god of healing).\u00a0 It will also examine the more circumspect case of various supernatural powers invoked in \u201cFer Fio\u2019s Cry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><em>Note:<\/em> The Abstract for another Paper by Dr. Bernhardt\u2013House at our Congress Sessions appears here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/bernhardt-house-2008-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bernhardt-House (2008 Congress)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We thank him for his contributions to our Sessions, both sponsored and co-sponsored.<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Phillip A. Bernhardt-House (Skagit Valley College, Whidbey Island Campus) \u201cChrist and the Irish Gods: Traces of Polytheism in Medieval Irish Magical Texts\u201d Abstract of Paper To be presented at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2018) Session on &#8220;Celtic Magic Texts&#8221; Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and the Societas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10536,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10525\/revisions\/10536"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}