Michael James Clarke

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My research is located in three overlapping fields: (a) Togail Troi, the Middle Irish narrative of the Trojan War; (b) medieval myth and poetics in relation to Antiquity; (c) medieval Irish language and literature in their global context. My principal long-term project is editing the unpublished Third Recension text of Togail Troí from the manuscripts. Two major sections have appeared so far as articles in Ériu.

My principal interests are in historical literature and language studies,  with particular reference to Greek, Latin, and medieval Irish, all seen in the context of the transnational study of human cultural development. Historical philology and manuscript studies are my chief modes of work.