Clonmacnois - the Church and Lands of St. Ciar'an
Clonmacnois - the Church and Lands of St. Ciar'an

Author: Annette Kehnel

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9783825834425

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Clonmacnois was one of the main ecclesiastical centres in early Christian Ireland. Yet no comprehensive work has hitherto been published which examines its history as an institution of religious, social and economic life. This book undertakes a detailed analysis of Clonmacnois before and during the age of reform and assesses possible reasons for its subsequent decline as an ecclesiastical centre. It traces the history of the former lay-ecclesiastical aristocracy down to the later Middle Ages, and, using previously neglected evidence surviving in seventeenth-century transcripts, sets out to reconstruct the extent of the former monastic lands.

The Life and Writings of Saint Patrick
The Life and Writings of Saint Patrick

Author: Saint Patrick

Publisher: Aeterna Press

Published:

Total Pages: 845

ISBN-13:

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Our chief purpose in writing this new Life of St Patrick, when so many Lives already exist, is to give a fuller and, we venture to hope, more exact account of the Saint’s missionary labours in Ireland than any that has appeared since the Tripartite Life was first written. For this purpose we have not only thoroughly studied Colgan’s great work, and made ourselves familiar with the really valuable publications of our own times, but we have, when practicable, personally visited all the scenes of the Saint’s labours, both at home and abroad, so as to be able to give a local colouring to the dry record, and also to catch up, as far as possible, the echoes, daily growing fainter, of the once vivid traditions of the past. Aeterna Press