Brent Miles

Associate Professor
Odette Hall 025

Campus

Cross-Appointments

St. Michael's College

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

Classical mythology and narratives of ancient history in Irish and Welsh; Irish saga; medieval Welsh political prophecy; literature of kingship in Irish and Hiberno-Latin; Arthur and the medieval Celtic world.

Biography

Courses Taught at CMS:

Articles and book chapters

  • ‘Iessu Nerth: A Text from Peniarth 50 on Prophetic Healing and the Reading of Welsh History’, in Hornsby, Michael and Rosiak, Karolina, ed., Eastern European Perspectives on Celtic Studies (Cambridge Scholars: Cambridge, 2018), pp. 162–88.
  • ‘Ystorya Dared’. Entry for the Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature, ed. Siân Echard and Robert Rouse (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017).
  • ‘The Rewriting of Hiberno-Latin Instruction to Kings in Later Medieval Ireland: The Sermo ad reges and “The Royal Teaching of Solomon”’, in Adapting Texts and Styles in a Celtic Context, ed. Axel Harlos and Neele Harlos (Nodus: Münster, 2016), pp. 245–263.
  • ‘The Sermo ad reges from the Leabhar Breac and Hiberno-Latin Tradition’, in Authorities and Adaptations: the Reworking and Transmission of Textual Sources in Medieval Ireland, ed. Elizabeth Boyle and Deborah Hayden (Dublin, 2014), pp. 141–158.
  • ‘The Irish History of the “Third Troy” and Medieval Writing of History’, in Gablánach in Scélaigecht: Celtic Studies in Honour of Ann Dooley, ed. S. Sheehan, J. Findon and W. Follett (Dublin, 2013), pp. 220–237.
  • ‘The Literary Set Piece and the Imitatio of Latin Epic in the Cattle Raid of Cooley’, in Ulidia 2. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, ed. R. Ó hUiginn and B. Ó Catháin (Maynooth, 2009), pp. 66–80.
  • ‘Lyouns Full Lothely: Dream Interpretation and Boethian Denaturing in the Alliterative Morte Arthure’, in Arthuriana 18.1 (Spring 2008), pp. 41–62.
  • ‘Riss In Mundtuirc: The Tale of Harmonia’s Necklace and the Study of the Theban Cycle in Medieval Ireland’, in Ériu 57 (2007), pp. 67–112.
  • ‘Wolfgang Capito’s “Warning of the Ministers of the Word and the Brethren at Strasbourg to the Brethren of the Regions and Cities of the [Swiss] Confederation Against the Blasphemous Disputation of Brother Konrad, Provincial of the Augustinian Order’”, in Reformation Sources. The Letters of Wolfgang Capito and his Fellow Reformers in Alsace and Switzerland, ed. E. Rummel and M. Kooistra (Toronto, 2007), pp. 177–200.
  • ‘Irish Evidence for Shared Sources of Classical Mythology in Anglo-Saxon England and Medieval Ireland’, in Insignis Sophiae Arcator. Essays in Honour of Michael W. Herren on his 65th Birthday, ed. G.R. Wieland, C. Ruff and R.G. Arthur (Turnhout, 2006), pp. 124–148.
  • ‘Branwen: A Reconsideration of the German and Norse Analogues’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 52 (Winter 2006), pp. 13–48.
  • ‘The Carmina Rhythmica of Æthilwald: Edition, Translation and Commentary’, The Journal of Medieval Latin 14 (2004), pp. 73–117.
  • ‘Togail Troí: The Irish Destruction of Troy on the Cusp of the Renaissance’, in Fantasies of Troy: Classical Tales and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Alan Shepard and Stephen D. Powell (Toronto, 2004), pp. 81–96.

Reviews

  • Review of Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination: The Matters of Britain in the Twelfth Century by Michael A. Faletra (New York, 2014), in the Journal of Medieval Latin 25 (2015), pp. 247 – 251.
  • Review of Translations from Classical Literature: Imtheachta Æniasa and Stair Ercuil ocus a Bás, ed. Kevin Murray, ITS Subsidiary Series 17 (London, 2006), in Éigse 37 (2010), pp. 191–9.

In preparation

  • ‘A Sermon to Kings’ and ‘The Royal Teachings of Soloman’: Treatises on Biblical Kingship from Medieval Ireland.
  • Introduction to Middle Welsh: Beginner’s Grammar of the Medieval Language and Reader.