Adomnán and the Holy Places. The Perceptions of an Insular Monk on the Locations of the Biblical Drama. By Thomas O’Loughlin
The comments on the back cover of this book describe it as a ‘magisterial study’, and this is indeed the case. An investigation of Adomnán of Iona's De locis sanctis might at first glance seem a limited subject, an examination of a short work of early Palestinian topography which was in any cas...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Literature and theology
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 491-493 |
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| Summary: | The comments on the back cover of this book describe it as a ‘magisterial study’, and this is indeed the case. An investigation of Adomnán of Iona's De locis sanctis might at first glance seem a limited subject, an examination of a short work of early Palestinian topography which was in any case—so Bede tells us—dictated by a bishop called Arculf, to whom the book is often even ascribed. This fascinating study proves that the subject is very far from being a limited one, as it develops not only the question of the importance of the work as such, but uses it to open a window onto Adomnán himself, his world, and that of Christianity in the seventh century., Adomnán's tract is a curious one: ostensibly based on first-hand descriptions by one Arculf. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frn043 |