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| Author | : Mary Low |
| Publisher | : Wild Goose Publications |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781901557220 |
St Cuthbert's Way runs from Melrose in the Scottish borders to Lindisfarne, Holy Island, off the coast of Northumberland. This new Pilgrims' Companion presents information essential for walking the Way, a field guide to places of interest along the route, an introduction to St Cuthbert and his time, songs, meditations and stories together with ideas and resources for a contemporary pilgrimage experience.
| Author | : Ann W. Astell |
| Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2024-07-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 026820814X |
Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation of hagiography as a genre correlates with similar changes in biblical studies. Christian hagiography flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, illuminating the gospel through the overlapping forms of exempla and vita. Originally, the Lives of the saints were understood as hermeneutical extensions of the Bible—God authors the saint, just as God authors the divinely inspired scriptures. During the medieval period, a sense of dual authorship between God and the cooperating saint developed, paralleling the Scholastic impulse to assign greater agency to the human writers of scripture. Then, in the sixteenth century, powerful new anxieties about historical truth pushed hagiography aside for biography, its successor. Drawing on her expertise in the history of Christianity and biblical exegesis, Astell convincingly shows how this radical shift in hagiography’s status—the loss of the literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical senses of the Lives—serves as a bellwether for modern biblical reception.
| Author | : Phyllis G. Jestice |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 1044 |
| Release | : 2004-12-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1851096493 |
A cross-cultural encyclopedia of the most significant holy people in history, examining why people in a wide range of religious traditions throughout the world have been regarded as divinely inspired. The first reference on the subject to span all the world's major religions, Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia examines the impact of individuals who, through personal charisma and inspirational deeds, served both as glorious examples of human potential and as envoys for the divine. Holy People of the World contains nearly 1,100 biographical sketches of venerated men and women. Written by religious studies experts and historians, each article focuses on the basic question: How did this person come to be regarded as holy? In addition, the encyclopedia features 20 survey articles on views of holy people in the major religious traditions such as Islam, Buddhism, and African religions, as well as 64 comparative articles on aspects of holiness and veneration across cultures such as awakening and conversion experiences, heredity, gender, asceticism, and persecution. Whether exploring by religion, culture, or historic period, this extensively cross-referenced resource offers a wealth of insights into one of the most revealing—and least explored—common denominators of spiritual traditions.
| Author | : Michael W. Herren |
| Publisher | : Boydell Press |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0851158897 |
Interprets the nature of Christianity in Celtic Britain and Ireland from the 5th to the 10th cent., based on written and visual evidence- images of Christ in manuscripts, metalwork and sculpture. The strain of the Pelagianism in Britain in the early 5th century influenced the theology and practice of the Celtic monastic Churches on both sides of the Irish Sea, making theological spectrum quite distinct from that of the continent.
| Author | : David Farmer |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 523 |
| Release | : 2011-04-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0199596603 |
The renowned Oxford Dictionary of Saints returns in a revised and updated form, providing concise accounts of the lives, cults, and artistic associations of over 1,400 saints, from the famous to the obscure. Featuring new entries on recently canonized saints from around the world, and a new appendix on pilgrimages.
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| Publisher | : Paulist Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
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| Author | : Ian Brown |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2006-11-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0748628622 |
The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.
| Author | : T. M. Charles-Edwards |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 729 |
| Release | : 2000-11-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521363950 |
A fully documented history of Ireland and the Irish from the fifth to the ninth centuries.
| Author | : J.M.P. Calise |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2002-08-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0313017115 |
Edited and translated Medieval texts related to the Picts and Dark Age Scotland have been compiled for the first time in this one volume collection. Recorded texts include Pictish Origin Legends written in Medieval Irish and Pictish and Scottish Regnal Lists, many of which have never previously been edited. Students and scholars will also find appendices containing lists, tables, and charts of supplemental information related to the Picts. Dictionaries of 500 personal, place, and population names associated with the Picts provide further innovative analysis of these texts. Calise has compiled a useful tool which allows scholars and students to compare and contrast the content of these texts in one handy reference book. There are no written documents attributable to the Picts, leaving their history to be created mainly by non-Picts. This refence work is an attempt to find historical truths within the mythological with the use of the available Medieval documentary sources.
| Author | : J. Douglas Woods |
| Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2010-10-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1554588243 |
The popular notion that sees the Anglo-Saxon era as “The Dark Ages” perhaps has tended to obscure for many people the creations and strengths of that time. This collection, in examining many aspects of pre-Norman Britain, helps to illuminate how Anglo-Saxon society contributed to the continuity of knowledge between the ancient world and the modern world. But as well, it posits a view of that society in its own distinctive terms to show how it developed as a synthesis of radically different cultures. The Bayeux Tapestry is examined for its underlying political motivations; the study of Old English literature is extended to such works as laws, charters, apocryphal literature, saints’ lives and mythologies, and many of these are studied for the insight they provide into the social structures of the Anglo-Saxons. Other essays examine both the institution of slavery and the use of Germanic warrior terminology in Old Saxon as a contribution towards the descriptive analysis of that society’s social groupings. The book also presents a perspective on the Christian church that is usually overlooked by historians: that its existence was continuous and influential from Roman times, and that it was greatly affected by the Celtic Christian church long after the latter was thought to have disintegrated.
