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Acknowledgements; Introduction Huw Pryce; 1. The uses of literacy inearly medieval Wales Patrick Sims-Williams; 2. Literacy in Pictland KatherineForsyth; 3. The context and uses of literacy in early Christian Ireland T. M.Charles-Edwards; 4. Orality, literacy and genealogy in early medieval Irelandand Wales David E. Thornton; 5. Charter-writing and its uses in earlymedieval Celtic societies Wendy Davies; 6. The context and uses of the Latincharter in twelfth-century Ireland Marie-Therese Flanagan; 7. Written text asperformance - the implications for Middle Welsh prose narratives SionedDavies; 8. More written about than writing? Welsh women and the written wordCeridwen Lloyd-Morgan; 9. Celtic literary tradition and the development of afeudal principality in Brittany Noel-Yves Tonnerre; 10. Gaelic literacy ineastern Scotland between 1124 and 1249 Dauvit Broun; 11. Inkhorn andspectacles: the impact of literacy in late medieval Wales Llinos BeverleySmith; 12. 'This my act and deed': the writing of private deeds in latemedieval north Wales A. D. Carr; 13. Literacy and the Irish bards KatherineSimms; List of works cited; Index.