Dr Grigory Bondarenko

Research Fellow

 

Grigory Bondarenko is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Irish and Celtic Studies (University of Ulster). He completed his PhD thesis (Early Irish literature and Medieval Studies) devoted to the mythological perception of space in Early Irish literature in 2001 in Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Earlier, he completed an MPhil dissertation in Celtic Studies at the University of Oxford, in 1999, on the concept of the sacred landscape in the Dindshenchas. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Institute for General History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is member of the Editorial Board of Odysseus, the yearly almanac of social history and historical anthropology (Moscow).

As an Assistant Editor, Grigory Bondarenko contributed to the eDIL project since January 2006. He works now on the supplement to the eDIL project.

Books and Recent Articles Authored

‘King in Exile in Airne Fíngein (‘Fíngen’s Vigil’): Power and Pursuit in Early Irish Literature’ (forthcoming), in Études celtiques (2007)

‘Conn Cétchathach and the image of ideal kingship in Early Medieval Ireland’, in Studia Celtica Fennica 3. (Helsinki, 2007)

Everyday Life of the Ancient Celts (Moscow, 2007) (in Russian), 390 pp.

‘Hiberno-Rossica: ‘knowledge in the clouds’ in Old Irish and Old Russian’ (in English), in Studia Celto-Slavica I:
Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Links and Parallels between Celtic and Slavic Traditions, ed. S. Mac Mathúna and M. Fomin (Coleraine, 2006), pp. 185-201.

‘Muirchú moccu Machtheni: the Beginning of Hagiography in Early Christian Ireland’, in Odysseus (Moscow, 2006) (in Russian), 15pp.

Mythology of space in Early Irish literature (Moscow, Yazyki slavyanskoy kul’tury, 2003) (in Russian), 416pp.