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9781851824861

Studies in Irish Hagiography

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    9781851824861

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-07-01
  • Publisher: Four Courts Pr Ltd
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations viii
Contributors ix
Preface xi
I. THE COLUMBAN TRADITION
The Tombs of the Saints: Their Significance for Adomnan
1(14)
Thomas O'Loughlin
Aspects of the Monastic Landscape in Adomnan's Life of Columba
15(16)
Aidan Macdonald
The Vita Columbae and Irish Hagiography: A Study of Vita Cainnechi
31(10)
Maire Herbert
Le jugement de l'ame dans la Vie de Columba
41(8)
Nathalie Stalmans
Varieties of Supernatural Contact in the Life of Adamnan
49(14)
John Carey
II. TRADITIONS OF OTHER IRISH SAINTS
`Ministerium seruitutis meae': The Metaphor and Reality of Slavery in Saint Patrick's Epistola and Confessio
63(9)
Elizabeth Mcluhan
Radegundis and Brigit
72(5)
Walter Berschin
St Brendan's Boat: Dead Hides and the Living Sea in Columban and Related Hagiography
77(16)
Jonathan M. Wooding
III. IRISH SAINTS AND BRITTANY
Irish Saints in Brittany: Myth or Reality?
93(27)
Gwenael Le Duc
Fingar/Gwinear/Guigner: An `Irish' Saint in Medieval Cornwall and Brittany
120(20)
Karen Jankulak
Une course en char dans l'hagiographie bretonne? Saint Samson contre la Theomacha
140(19)
Bernard Merdrignac
Les origines irlandaises de Saint Briac honore en Bretagne: Legende ou realite
159(13)
Andre-Yves Bourges
IV. IRISH SAINTS' LIVES IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE
St Cathroe of Metz and the Hagiography of Exoticism
172(17)
David N. Dumville
Jonas's Life of Columbanus and his Disciples
189(32)
Clare Stancliffe
The Cult of Columba in Lotharingia (9th-11th Centuries): The Manuscript Evidence
221(16)
Jean-Michel Picard
V. APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF IRISH HAGIOGRAPHY
Patterns of Hypocorism in Early Irish Hagiography
237(13)
Paul Russell
The Genealogies of Leinster as a Source for Local Cults
250(18)
Edel Bhreathnach
The Study of Folk-Motifs in Early Irish Hagiography: Problems of Approach and Rewards at Hand
268(10)
Dorothy Ann Bray
The Reproductions of Irish Saints
278(11)
Joseph Falaky Nagy
VI. HAGIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP: FROM SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BEGINNINGS TO CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS
Irish Hagiography in the Acta sanctorum (1643--1794)
289(28)
Robert Godding
Vita Sancti Carthagi in the Seventeenth Century
317(20)
D.J. Thornton
Problemes et premiers resultats d'une histoire generale de la litterature hagiographique
337(20)
Guy Philippart
Francois de Vriendt et Michel Trigalet
Bibliography 357(36)
Index 393

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