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Martyrology of Four Cities
Padraig O Riain (Ed.)
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New and definitive edition of Irish martyrology reveals its European origins. The martyrology edited here, for the first time since the nineteenth century, derives from a rich variety of sources and has a fascinating history. While it draws on Danish and Irish manuscripts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the editor argues that its layers of Metz and Cologne saints were not added either in Ireland, as has been previously thought, or in Denmark, but rather in the Benedictine monasteries at these two medieval German cities. The presence in both manuscripts of a layer of Irish saints indicates that ... Read more
New and definitive edition of Irish martyrology reveals its European origins. The martyrology edited here, for the first time since the nineteenth century, derives from a rich variety of sources and has a fascinating history. While it draws on Danish and Irish manuscripts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the editor argues that its layers of Metz and Cologne saints were not added either in Ireland, as has been previously thought, or in Denmark, but rather in the Benedictine monasteries at these two medieval German cities. The presence in both manuscripts of a layer of Irish saints indicates that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Henry Bradshaw Society United Kingdom
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781870252768
SKU
V9781870252768
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Reviews for Martyrology of Four Cities
This is a doubly important work for historians of liturgy, those working with hagiography, and medievalists in general: it brings us another text, and a new way of looking at that genre of texts.
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