Lives and afterlives: the Hiberno-Latin Patrician tradition, 650-1100
"Saint Patrick is a central figure in the medieval Irish Church. As the converter saint he was a central anchor through which Irish people came to understand their complicated religious past as well as their new place in the wider Christian world. This study considers some of the earliest and m...
| Published in: | Studia traditionis theologiae |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Turnhout
Brepols
[2023]
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Studia traditionis theologiae (volume 55)
Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Studia traditionis theologiae
volume 55 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Patricius, Saint 385-463
/ Ireland
/ Latin
/ Saint's life
/ History 650-1100
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages KBF British Isles KCD Hagiography; saints |
| Further subjects: | B
Patrick Saint (373?-463?)
Biography
B Irlande - Histoire religieuse - 600-1500 B Ireland Church history 600-1500 B Patrick Saint (373?-463?) Cult History |
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| Summary: | "Saint Patrick is a central figure in the medieval Irish Church. As the converter saint he was a central anchor through which Irish people came to understand their complicated religious past as well as their new place in the wider Christian world. This study considers some of the earliest and most influential writings focused on Saint Patrick, and asks how successive generations forged, sustained and redirected aspects of the saint's persona in order to suit their specific religious and political needs. In this book Elizabeth Dawson, for the first time, treats the Hiberno-Latin 'vitae' of Patrick as a body of connected texts. Seminal questions about the corpus are addressed, such as who wrote the 'Lives' and why? What do the works tell us about the communities that venerated and celebrated the saint? And what impact did these Lives have on the success and endurance of the saint's cult? Challenging the perception that Patrick's legend was created and sustained almost exclusively by the monastic community at Armagh, she demonstrates that the Patrick who emerges from the 'Lives' is a varied and malleable saint with whom multiple communities engaged." |
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| ISBN: | 2503606040 |