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Monastic Life and Venerated Spaces

Herausgegeben von: Aneilya Barnes und Jacob Abell

Früher unter dem Titel "Monastic Life"

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This series examines monastic movements amid broader religious and cultural traditions. It explores the everyday life of monastic individuals, the collective experience of religious communities, and the nature of asceticism and monasticism, as well as monastic institutions, patronage, and spaces and landscapes central to ascetic traditions, including sites of veneration. The series also welcomes research on monastic and ascetic communities and traditions from around the world during the period 500–1500 CE.

The series’ Editorial Board comprises:

Aneilya Barnes, Coastal Carolina University

Jacob Abell, Baylor University

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Hiberno-Latin Saints’ ‘Lives’ in the Seventh Century

Writing Early Ireland

John Higgins

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As part of the historicizing corpus of seventh-century Irish writing, the Lives framed the narrative of the early saints as an effective weapon in contemporary political and ecclesiastical conflicts. Cogitosus’s Life of Brigit, Muirchú’s and Tírechán’s accounts of Saint Patrick, and Adomnán’s Life of Columba created the understanding of the history of early Ireland that has endured to this day. How did the writers accomplish this through their literary choices?

The authors of Irish saints’ Lives used the literary form of hagiography (Christian biography), miracle stories, and an elaborate rhetorical style to present the words and actions of their subjects. These Lives created a narrative of early Irish history that supported the political/ecclesiastical elites by showing that their power derived from the actions of their patron saints.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781501515590
ISBN:: 9781501515590
ISBN:: 9781501515606
ISBN:: 9781501523267
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Religionsgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Literaturgeschichte
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications