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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... Irish scholars , has written , Ireland became the most vital civilising force in the West . ' Ireland was more than a custodian . Fervour and apathy , meek- ness and bravado , kindness and icy cruelty and all the other opposites of the ...
... Irish scholars , has written , Ireland became the most vital civilising force in the West . ' Ireland was more than a custodian . Fervour and apathy , meek- ness and bravado , kindness and icy cruelty and all the other opposites of the ...
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... Irish interests and the schemes of Empire and Papacy . When it came , and was resolved , the Roman powers were relieved of a minuscule annoyance . For Ireland the effect was quite different . Through the lives of three Irishmen who were ...
... Irish interests and the schemes of Empire and Papacy . When it came , and was resolved , the Roman powers were relieved of a minuscule annoyance . For Ireland the effect was quite different . Through the lives of three Irishmen who were ...
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... Irish sources that survive were written in the eighth century , at least a hundred years after the death of Columbanus ; and many of them have been shown to be tendentious — from a variety of motives — in their treatment of the past ...
... Irish sources that survive were written in the eighth century , at least a hundred years after the death of Columbanus ; and many of them have been shown to be tendentious — from a variety of motives — in their treatment of the past ...
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... Irish clerics of an independent turn of mind — delighted to trace the common ancestry of ancient Irish priests and Old Testament prophets , deducing from their theories a special sanctity in the nations of the north - west . Historicism ...
... Irish clerics of an independent turn of mind — delighted to trace the common ancestry of ancient Irish priests and Old Testament prophets , deducing from their theories a special sanctity in the nations of the north - west . Historicism ...
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... 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 heroic age of Ire- land , keeping ...
... 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 heroic age of Ire- land , keeping ...
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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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