The Patrician Texts in the Book of Armagh
Author: Ludwig Bieler
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13:
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The Confession of St. Patrick
Author: Saint Patrick
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-08-17
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9781516942206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book St. Patrick testifies to us of his conversion, trials, and tribulations in seeking, surrendering, and suffering for Christ. Even though most of us do not dare attempt to aspire to reach the heights of St. Patrick, it is important to realize that God made each and every person an individual - not to be like another - but rather to be like Christ. He made each person unique and endows each of us with different gifts and graces. This is why we study and admire other followers of Christ but we are not to try to be exactly like another. In growing in virtue - yes. But God has a very specific wills and assignments for each of us. Nevertheless it is helpful to study and reflect on the virtues of others like St. Patrick.
Collectanea de sancto Patricio]
Author: Patrick (helgon.)
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHandbook of Patristic Exegesis
Author: Charles Kannengiesser
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-11-28
Total Pages: 840
ISBN-13: 900453153X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough this comprehensive Handbook, the reader will obtain a balanced and cohesive picture of the Early Church. It gives an overall view of the reception, transmission, and interpretation of the Bible in the life and thought of the Church during the first five centuries of Christianity. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004098152).
Vengeance in the Middle Ages
Author: Paul R. Hyams
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1317002474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume aims to balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture in the Middle Ages. A diverse assortment of interdisciplinary essays from scholars in Europe and North America contest or enlarge traditional approaches to and interpretations of vengeance in the Middle Ages. Each essay attempts to clarify the multifaceted experience of vengeance within a specific medieval context”a particular region, a particular text, a particular social movement. By asking what relationship a distinct factor like authorship or religion has with the concept of vengeance, each author points towards the breadth of meanings of medieval vengeance, and to the heart of the deeper and broader questions that spur scholarly interest in the subject. Geographically, the essays in the volume highlight Western Europe (particularly the Anglo-Norman world), Scotland, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal. Thematically, the essays are concerned with heroic cultures of vengeance, vengeance as a legal and political tool, Christian justification and expression of vengeance, literature and the distinction between discourse and reality, and the emotions of vengeance. Methodologically, these interdisciplinary studies incorporate tools borrowed from anthropology, the study of emotion, and modern social and literary theories. This volume is aimed at professional scholars and graduate students within the broad field of medieval studies, including the subfields of history, literature, and religious studies, and is intended to inspire further research on medieval vengeance. However, this collection will also prove interesting to non-medievalists interested in the history of emotion, the justification of human conflict, and the concept of feud and its applicability to specific historical periods.
The Boundaries of Monotheism
Author: Maaike de Haardt
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-01-31
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9047426630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the significance of monotheism in modern western culture, taking into account both its problematic and promising aspects? Biblical texts and the biblical faith traditions bear a continuous, polemical tension between exclusive and inclusive perceptions and interpretations of monotheism. Western monotheism proves itself to be multi-significant and heterogeneous, producing boundary-setting as well as boundary-crossing tendencies, is the common thesis of the authors of this book, who have been collectively debating this theme for two years in an interdisciplinary scholarly setting. Their contributions range from the fields of biblical and religious studies, history and philosophy of religion, systematic theology, to gender studies in theology and religion.The authors also explain the particular contribution of their own theological discipline to these debates.
The Mysteries of Stonehenge
Author: Nikolai Tolstoy
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2016-09-15
Total Pages: 896
ISBN-13: 1445659549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe mythic foundations of the world's greatest archaeological mystery.
Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf
Author: Sean Duffy
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Published: 2013-10-11
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0717157768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland's medieval history to retain a place in the popular imagination. Once, we were told that Brian, the great Christian king, gave his life in a battle on Good Friday against pagan Viking enemies whose defeat banished them from Ireland forever. More recent interpretations of the Battle of Clontarf have played down the role of the Vikings and portrayed it as merely the final act in a rebellion against Brian, the king of Munster, by his enemies in Leinster and Dublin. This book proposes a far-reaching reassessment of Brian Boru and Clontarf. By examining Brian's family history and tracing his career from its earliest days, it uncovers the origins of Brian's greatness and explains precisely how he changed Irish political life forever. Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf offers a new interpretation of the role of the Vikings in Irish affairs and explains how Brian emerged from obscurity to attain the high-kingship of Ireland because of his exploitation of the Viking presence. And it concludes that Clontarf was deemed a triumph, despite Brian's death, because of what he averted – a major new Viking offensive in Ireland – on that fateful day.
The Road to Judgment
Author: Robin Chapman Stacey
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-08-28
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1512807575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the institution of personal suretyship through the remarkable rich sources extant from medieval Ireland and Wales.
The Charisma of Distant Places
Author: Courtney Luckhardt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-15
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0429647794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis cultural history of early medieval travel and religion reveals how movement affected society, demonstrating the connectedness of people and regions between 500 and 850 CE. In The Charisma of Distant Places, Courtney Luckhardt enriches our understanding of migration through her examination of religious movement. Vertical links to God and horizontal links to distant regions identified religious travelers – both men and women – as holy, connected to the human and the divine across physical and spiritual distances. Using textual sources, material culture, and place studies, this project is among the first to contextualize the geographic and temporal movement of early medieval people to reveal the diversity of religious travel, from the voluntary journeys of pilgrims to the forced travel of Christian slaves. Luckhardt offers new ways of understanding ideas about power, holiness, identity, and mobility during the transformation of the Roman world in the global Middle Ages. By focusing on the religious dimensions of early medieval people and the regions they visited, this book addresses probing questions, including how and why medieval people communicated and connected with one another across boundaries, both geographical and imaginative.
