Attitudes to Excommunication in the Early Insular Church: Returning to Gildas’s Letter to Finnian
This article re-examines Gildas’s attitude to excommunication in surviving fragments of his letter to Finnian, utilized in Irish canon collections of the seventh and eighth centuries. It compares Gildas’s approach to that of Patrick in his open letter excommunicating the followers of Coroticus and,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
[2020]
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The journal of medieval monastic studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 9, Pages: 9-30 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBF British Isles SA Church law; state-church law |
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