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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... East 26th Street New York 10010 USA www.continuumbooks.com Copyright © 1968 Brendan Lehane Published 1994 by Constable and Company Limited This edition published by Continuum 2005 All rights reserved . No part of this publication may be ...
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... eastern Europe . But being far less troublesome than the latter , it could be left without regret on the extra ... East were well under control , a source of constant pride to Romans who thought that by accepting a salute it was ...
... eastern Europe . But being far less troublesome than the latter , it could be left without regret on the extra ... East were well under control , a source of constant pride to Romans who thought that by accepting a salute it was ...
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... east , and recruits were drawn from barbarian tribes whose loyalty to Rome , of which few ever came within a thousand miles , was suspect . Again increased costs had to be borne by the remaining peasantry . From their taxes too came the ...
... east , and recruits were drawn from barbarian tribes whose loyalty to Rome , of which few ever came within a thousand miles , was suspect . Again increased costs had to be borne by the remaining peasantry . From their taxes too came the ...
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... east of France , and closely related to the enterprising warriors who frustrated his ambitions in Britain . From other mentions of Celts in classical writings a cliché picture emerges . To the Roman , on Greek precedent , a non- Roman ...
... east of France , and closely related to the enterprising warriors who frustrated his ambitions in Britain . From other mentions of Celts in classical writings a cliché picture emerges . To the Roman , on Greek precedent , a non- Roman ...
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... east , who brought with them the archetypal mystical symbols of Indo - European myth : a stone that acclaimed with human voice the rightful accession of a new king ; a spear that wielded itself in battle , bringing dire slaughter upon ...
... east , who brought with them the archetypal mystical symbols of Indo - European myth : a stone that acclaimed with human voice the rightful accession of a new king ; a spear that wielded itself in battle , bringing dire slaughter upon ...
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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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