Early Celtic ChristianityA&C Black, 2005 M01 8 - 256 páginas This lively and original account of early Celtic Christianity - which was of far greater importance in the development of Western culture than we commonly realize - is told against the background of European history of the first seven centuries A.D. It focuses on the lives of Saints Brendan, Columba, and Columbanus, who lived active and effective lives in the cause of the early Church. Brendan, one of the founding fathers of Christianity in Ireland, was known in legend as a voyager and was thought to have reached the Western Hemisphere long before the Vikings. Columba took Celtic Christianity to Scotland and helped to re-establish it in Wales and in the North and West of England. Columbanus was the great Irish missionary to continental Europe, where he and his followers helped to convert the heathen invaders from the East. When Rome, in the person of St. Augustine, Pope Gregory's apostle to the Angles, penetrated again to England, a showdown between Roman and Celtic Christianity was inevitable. The dramatic confrontation occurred at the Council of Whitby in 664. Rome, with its organization and authority, won, and Celtic Catholicism went into eclipse. But some of its influence persisted all over Europe, and it had a large share in shaping the culture that ultimately emerged from the dark ages. This book's fascination is the picture that it gives of the movements of peoples, the shaping of new countries, and the development of ideas during those too-little-known centuries. |
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... available from the British Library . ISBN : 0 8264 8621 5 ( Paperback ) Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe , Chippenham , Wiltshire FOR MY MOTHER This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction.
... available from the British Library . ISBN : 0 8264 8621 5 ( Paperback ) Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe , Chippenham , Wiltshire FOR MY MOTHER This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction.
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... Britain , through a Maintenance Grant , made it possible for me to work in Ireland , a period heightened by the kindness of too many Irish to mention . The staff of the National Library , Dublin , and of the British Museum Library were ...
... Britain , through a Maintenance Grant , made it possible for me to work in Ireland , a period heightened by the kindness of too many Irish to mention . The staff of the National Library , Dublin , and of the British Museum Library were ...
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... Britain , the Roman commander Agricola considered the advantages of taking Ireland . The project seemed easy , and offered good and well - placed harbours for the shipping route between Britain and Spain . Agricola , called to other ...
... Britain , the Roman commander Agricola considered the advantages of taking Ireland . The project seemed easy , and offered good and well - placed harbours for the shipping route between Britain and Spain . Agricola , called to other ...
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... Britain in the north . They had inflicted on the Romans some bruising defeats , and when they themselves were beaten the Romans cherished their victories . Some of their gods had been respectfully assimilated by the Romans . Their ...
... Britain in the north . They had inflicted on the Romans some bruising defeats , and when they themselves were beaten the Romans cherished their victories . Some of their gods had been respectfully assimilated by the Romans . Their ...
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... Britain , Gaul and Spain . But the Irish Celts , the Gaels , in general approved of the geographical isolation of their new home . Away from the commotions of Europe , they started insular commotions for themselves . They created the ...
... Britain , Gaul and Spain . But the Irish Celts , the Gaels , in general approved of the geographical isolation of their new home . Away from the commotions of Europe , they started insular commotions for themselves . They created the ...
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Pagan Ireland | 28 |
The Awakening of Ireland | 51 |
The Sailor Saint | 74 |
The OrganisationAbbot | 100 |
Iona and Lindisfarne | 121 |
France | 147 |
The Path to Rome | 171 |
Trial | 189 |
After the Verdict | 210 |
Chronological Table | 221 |
References | 225 |
Select Bibliography | 229 |
Index | 233 |
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