Book Description
Short essays on 14 well-known and well-loved early Irish saints.
Author : John J. Ó Ríordáin
Publisher : Columba Press (IE)
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Christian saints
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Short essays on 14 well-known and well-loved early Irish saints.
Author : Pádraig Ó Riain
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781846823183
Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical monuments. Professor Pádraig Ó Riain's Dictionary of Irish Saints is intended to serve as a guide to the (mainly documentary) sources of information on the saints named in these dedications, for those who have an interest in them, scholarly or otherwise. The need for a summary biographical dictionary of Irish saints, containing information on such matters as feastdays, localisations, chronology, and genealogies, although stressed over sixty years ago by the eminent Jesuit and Bollandist scholar, Paul Grosjean, has never before been satisfied. Professor Ó Riain has been working in the field of Irish hagiography for upwards of forty years, and the material for the over 1,000 entries in his Dictionary has come from a variety of sources, including Lives of the saints, martyrologies, genealogies of the saints, shorter tracts on the saints (some of them accessible only in manuscripts), annals, annates, collections of folklore, Ordnance Survey letters, and other documents. Running to almost 700 pages, the body of the Dictionary is preceded by a Preface, List of Sources and Introduction, and is followed by comprehensive Indices of Parishes, Other Places (mainly townlands), Alternate (mainly Anglicised) Names, Subjects, and Feastdays. Professor Ó Riain's Dictionary has been described as 'an astonishingly comprehensive, intelligent and well-organized work'; it is unlikely to be superseded for many decades to come.
Author : Lisa M. Bitel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1501711776
Isle of the Saints recreates the harsh yet richly spiritual world of medieval Irish monks on the Christian frontier of barbarian Europe. Lisa Bitel draws on accounts of saints' lives written between 800 and 1200 to explain, from the monks' own perspective, the social networks that bound them to one another and to their secular neighbors.
Author : Roy Flechner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691217467
Saint Patrick Retold draws on recent research to offer a fresh assessment of Patrick's travails and achievements. This is the first biography in nearly fifty years to explore Patrick's career against the background of historical events in late antique Britain and Ireland.
Author : John O'Hanlon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Karen Eileen Overbey
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : 9782503527673
Sacral Geographies explores the spatiality of reliquaries in early Ireland, and the intersections of devotional loca sancta with the territories of secular kingship, with the hierarchies of medieval monastic enclosures, and with modern, institutional spaces of knowledge. --Book Jacket.
Author : Thomas Cahill
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0307755134
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift! Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars"—and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost—they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.
Author : Four Courts Press
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 9781846829314
Author : Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher : Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0802851703
This beautiful book weaves together faith and wonder, miracles and mystery, to tell the little-known story of Saint Ciaran of Ireland.
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Publisher : SkyLight Paths Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1594733023
The Celtic Christians beheld the world around them and perceived the divine life of God as upholding every aspect of the material universe. Their prayers and poems, their liturgies and theological interpretations give Christians a sense of faith that is confident in a merciful and infinitely creative, healing God.