Beasts and Birds in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints ...
Author: Mary Donatus MacNickle
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 268
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Francis Joseph Cummings
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mary Donatus MacNickle
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dominic Alexander
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1843833948
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A thorough investigation of the saint and animal topos: its origins, growth and development.
Author: Alban Butler
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780860122579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For more than two centuries, "Butler's" has been one of the best known, most widely consulted hagiographies. In its brief and authoritative entries, readers can find a wealth of knowledge on the lives and deeds of the saints, as well as their ecclesiastical and historical importance since canonization.
Author: Edward A. Armstrong
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0520313453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
Author: Joseph Falaky Nagy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-09-05
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1501729055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How does a written literature come into being within an oral culture, and how does such a literature achieve and maintain its authority? Joseph Falaky Nagy addresses those issues in his wide-ranging reading of the medieval literature of Ireland, from the writings of St. Patrick to the epic tales about the warrior Cú Chulainn. These texts, written in both Latin and Irish, constitute an adventurous and productive experiment in staging confrontations between the written and the spoken, the Christian and the pagan. The early Irish literati, primarily clerics living within a monastic milieu, produced literature that included saints' lives, heroic sagas, law tracts, and other genres. They sought to invest their literature with an authority different from that of the traditions from which they borrowed, native and foreign. To achieve this goal, they cast many of their texts as the outcome of momentous dialogues between saints and angelic messengers or remarkable interviews with the dead, who could reveal some insight from the past that needed to be rediscovered by forgetful contemporaries. Conversing with angels and ancients, medieval Irish writers boldly inscribed their visions of the past onto the new Christian order and its literature. Nagy includes portions of the original Latin and Irish texts that are not readily available to scholars, along with full translations.