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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Dawson, Elizabeth (19..-.... ; historienne). Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : Lives and Afterlives [Texte imprimé] : the Hiberno-Latin Patrician tradition, 650–1100 / Elizabeth Dawson
Publication : Turnhout : Brepols, DL 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (179 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Studia traditionis theologiae : explorations in early and medieval theology ; Volume 55
Lien à la collection : Studia traditionis theologiae
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 137-152. Index
"Saint Patrick is a central figure in the medieval Irish Church. As the converter
saint he was a central anchor through which Irish people came to understand their
complicated religious past as well as their new place in the wider Christian world.
This study considers some of the earliest and most influential writings focused on
Saint Patrick, and asks how successive generations forged, sustained and redirected
aspects of the saint's persona in order to suit their specific religious and political
needs. In this book Elizabeth Dawson, for the first time, treats the Hiberno-Latin
vitae of Patrick as a body of connected texts. Seminal questions about the corpus
are addressed, such as who wrote the Lives and why? What do the works tell us about
the communities that venerated and celebrated the saint? And what impact did these
Lives have on the success and endurance of the saint's cult? Challenging the perception
that Patrick's legend was created and sustained almost exclusively by the monastic
community at Armagh, she demonstrates that the Patrick who emerges from the Lives
is a varied and malleable saint with whom multiple communities engaged."
Sujet(s) : Patrice (saint)
Hagiographie chrétienne -- Moyen âge
Genre ou forme : Biographie -- Sources
Indice(s) Dewey : 270.209 2 (23e éd.) = Christianisme - 0325-0787 - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-2-503-60604-0 (br.)
EAN 9782503606040
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb473351707
Notice n° :
FRBNF47335170