Dr Brigid Ehrmantraut

Junior Research Fellow

Departmental and College Responsibilities

Junior Research Fellow, St John's College, University of Cambridge

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., Classical Myth in Medieval Ireland, Studies in Celtic History (Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming 2025)

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., ‘In Cath Catharda “The Civil War”: The Prologue’, in Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland: An Anthology of Medieval Irish Texts and Interpretations, ed. by Michael Clarke, Erich Poppe, and Isabelle Torrance, Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception (Bloomsbury, 2024), 181–192 (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/classical-antiquity-and-medieval-ireland-9781350333277/)

Ehrmantraut, B., ‘How Samson Slew the Gesteda’, in Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland: An Anthology of Medieval Irish Texts and Interpretations, ed. by Michael Clarke, Erich Poppe, and Isabelle Torrance, Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception (Bloomsbury, 2024), 221–228 (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/classical-antiquity-and-medieval-ireland-9781350333277/)

Reviews

Ehrmantraut, B., ‘Review: Patrick Sims-Williams, ed., The Medieval Welsh Englynion y Beddau, Studies in Celtic History 46 (D. S. Brewer, 2023)’, Archaeologia Cambrensis (forthcoming) 

Ehrmantraut, B., ‘Review: Elizabeth Dawson, Lives and Afterlives: The Hiberno-Latin Patrician Tradition, 650–1100, Studia Traditionis Theologiae 55 (Brepols, 2023)’, Journal of Medieval Latin (forthcoming)

Ehrmantraut, B., ‘Review: Ruairí Ó hUiginn and Elizabeth Boyle, eds, The Book of Uí Mhaine, Codices Hibernenses Eximii 3 (Royal Irish Academy, 2023)’, Studia Hibernica (forthcoming)

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)