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Dicuil’s so-called Liber de astronomia has confused many modern scholars. Based on an analysis of its structure, this paper argues that the very nature of the work has often been misunderstood. It was never meant to be a textbook, but scholarly ad-hoc writing, shaped by some special, changing contexts of its presentations at the Carolingian court over the years 814–18. Dicuil himself later described the resulting work as De cursu solis lunaeque , which is more fitting than the common modern title. 1
PeritiaArts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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Peritia is an international peer-reviewed journal published by Brepols with a focus on Insular culture from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages. Within those parameters we welcome submissions from all cognate disciplines. The journal has published ground-breaking articles in archaeology, computistics, hagiography, history, law, literature and music. While Peritia enjoys a core strength in early medieval Ireland, this has never been exclusivist; other areas of research, related to the Insular world and its connections to the wider early medieval West are well-represented.