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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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Author: Herbert Thurston
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Category : Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Ghazzal Dabiri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100902065X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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Saint Thecla was one of the most prominent figures of early Christianity who provided a model of virginity and a role-model for women in the early Church. She was the object of cult and of pilgrimage and her tale in the Acts of Paul and Thecla made a tremendous impact on later hagiographies of both female and male saints. This volume explores this impact on medieval hagiographical texts composed in Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Greek, Irish, Latin, Persian, and Syriac. It investigates how they evoked and/or invoked Thecla and her tale in constructing the lives and story worlds of their chosen saints and offers detailed original readings of the lives of various heroines and heroes. The book adds further depth and nuance to our understanding of Thecla's popularity and the spread of her legend and cult.

Author: John O'Hanlon
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Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Author: James Francis Kenney
Publisher: New York : Octagon Books, 1966 [c1929]
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 924

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Category : Literature, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: Whitley Stokes
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Category : Celtic languages
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Includes section "Book reviews"

Author: Ralph O'Connor
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843843846
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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"This edited volume will make a major contribution to our appreciation of the importance of classical literature and learning in medieval Ireland, and particularly to our understanding of its role in shaping the content, structure and transmission of medieval Irish narrative." Dr Kevin Murray, Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork. From the tenth century onwards, Irish scholars adapted Latin epics and legendary histories into the Irish language, including the Imtheachta Aeniasa, the earliest known adaptation of Virgil's Aeneid into any European vernacular; Togail Tro , a grand epic reworking of the decidedly prosaic history of the fall of Troy attributed to Dares Phrygius; and, at the other extreme, the remarkable Merugud Uilixis meic Leirtis, a fable-like retelling of Ulysses's homecoming boiled down to a few hundred lines of lapidary prose. Both the Latin originals and their Irish adaptations had a profound impact on the ways in which Irish authors wrote narratives about their own legendary past, notably the great saga T in B C ailnge (The Cattle-Raid of Cooley). The essays in this book explore the ways in which these Latin texts and techniques were used. They are unified by a conviction that classical learning and literature were central to the culture of medieval Irish storytelling, but precisely how this relationship played out is a matter of ongoing debate. As a result, they engage in dialogue with each other, using methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines (philology, classical studies, comparative literature, translation studies, and folkloristics). Ralph O'Connor is Professor in the Literature and Culture of Britain, Ireland and Iceland at the University of Aberdeen. Contributors: Abigail Burnyeat, Michael Clarke, Robert Crampton, Helen Fulton, Barbara Hillers, M ire N Mhaonaigh, Ralph O'Connor, Erich Poppe.