Dr Brigid Ehrmantraut

Junior Research Fellow

Departmental and College Responsibilities

Junior Research Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge (https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/fellow-profile/2661)

Academic Interests

Celtic languages and literature, Classical and Medieval Latin literature, Classical reception and textual transmission, intellectual history, Celtic philology

Selected Publications

Monographs

Ehrmantraut, B., The Reception of Classical Mythology in Medieval Ireland, Studies in Celtic History (Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming 2024/25)

Edited Volumes/Journal Issues

North American Journal of Celtic Studies, vols 6.2, 7.1 (2022–23) (as Editorial Assistant), and vol. 8.1 (forthcoming 2024) (as Guest Editor)

Quastio Insularis, vol. 21 (2020) (as Assistant Editor), and vol. 22 (2022 for 2021) (as Editor in Chief)

Journal Articles 

Ehrmantraut, B., ‘A Wrong Turn on the Way to Troy: Samson and the Classical Tradition in Medieval Ireland’, Celtica 34 (2022), 39–59

Ehrmantraut, B., ‘Of Mice and Mounds: Prehistoric Monuments in the Literature of Medieval Wales’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 81 (Summer, 2021), 93–11 

Ehrmantraut, B., ‘In similtudinem fertae: Mythologization of Burial Mounds in Early Medieval Irish and Hiberno-Latin Literature’, Quaestio Insularis 20 (2021 for 2019), 72–90 

Book Chapters

Ehrmantraut, B., ‘The Pseudohistorical Prologue to In Cath Catharda’, in Classical Antiquity in Medieval Ireland: The Antiquity Sagas and Related Literature, ed. by Michael Clarke, Erich Poppe, and Isabelle Torrance, Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception (Bloomsbury) (forthcoming 2024) 

Ehrmantraut, B., ‘How Samson Slew the Gesteda’, in Classical Antiquity in Medieval Ireland: The Antiquity Sagas and Related Literature, ed. by Michael Clarke, Erich Poppe, and Isabelle Torrance, Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception (Bloomsbury) (forthcoming 2024) 

Reviews

Ehrmantraut, B., ‘Review: History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland by Elizabeth Boyle’, Kelten 90 (2022) (https://kelten.vanhamel.nl/k90-2022-ehrmantraut-boyle-routledge-history-and-salvation-ireland)

Ehrmantraut, B., ‘Review: Medieval Welsh Medical Texts by Diana Luft’, Kelten 87 (2021) (https://kelten.vanhamel.nl/k87-2021-ehrmantraut-review-diana-luft-welsh-charms)