Hiberno-Latin Saints’ ‘Lives’ in the Seventh Century : : Writing Early Ireland / / John Higgins.
As part of the historicizing corpus of seventh-century Irish writing, the Lives framed the narrative of the early saints as an effective weapon in contemporary political and ecclesiastical conflicts. Cogitosus’s Life of Brigit, Muirchú’s and Tírechán’s accounts of Saint Patrick, and Adomnán’s Life o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2024] ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monastic Life and Venerated Spaces
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XIV, 203 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Main Texts
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface “Semen Eius Serviet In Sempiternum”: The Power of the Saint
- Chapter 1. Irish Lives and the Irish Past
- Chapter 2. The Lives: A Response to Seventh-Century Ireland
- Chapter 3. Creating a Past: Palladius, the “Past,” and Historical Dossiers
- Chapter 4. The Lives in Hiberno-Latin Literature
- Chapter 5. Getting a Life: Saints’ Lives and the Historical Dossier
- Chapter 6. Saints’ Lives and Miracle Stories
- Chapter 7. Angels in the Details: A Close Reading of the Lives
- Chapter 8. Making History in the Seventh Century
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index Locorum