Dr. Patrick Wadden

Dr. Patrick Wadden 

Associate Professor of History

patrickwadden@bac.edu

B.A., Trinity College, Dublin
M.St., University of Oxford
D.Phil., University of Oxford
  • Medieval Ireland, from St Patrick to the Flight of the Earls
  • An Introduction to the Middle Ages
  • Bede and his World
  • Historiography
  • The Crusades
  • History of the Benedictine Tradition
  • The Vikings
  • The History of Western Civilization I: to 1500
  • The History of Western Civilization II: since 1500
  • Beginners and Intermediate Latin
  • Leaders and Leadership in the Pre-Modern World
  • Eating and Drinking in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
7. ‘Prímchenéla and fochenéla in the Irish Sex Aetates Mundi’, under review with the
editors of Ériu.
6. ‘Dál Riata c.1000: genealogies and politics’, Scottish Historical Review 95:2
(forthcoming, October 2016).
5. ‘The pseudo‐historical origins of the Senchas Már and royal legislation in early
Ireland’, Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland 27 (forthcoming, 2016).
4. ‘The Frankish table of nations in Insular historiography’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic
Studies 71 (forthcoming, winter 2016).
3. ‘Cath Ruis na Ríg for Bóinn: history and literature in twelfth‐century Ireland’, Aiste 4
(2014), 11–44.
2. ‘Do feartaib Cairnich, Ireland and Scotland in the twelfth century’, Proceedings of the
Harvard Celtic Colloquium 33 (2014), 189–213.
1. ‘Trácht Romra and the Northumbrian episode in Betha Adamnáin’, Ériu 62 (2012),
101–11.
  • Early medieval Britain and Ireland; Celtic Studies; the Vikings