Medieval Irish Saints' Lives: An Introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae

ISBN-13: 9780198215820 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 440 str.

Richard Sharpe

Opis

This book is a study of three important late medieval collections of saints' lives. The manuscripts, written in Latin and, for the most part, relating to the lives of Irish saints, have never before been subject to critical examination. Sharpe's pioneering analysis examines such questions as when and where the lives were compiled, and from what sources they derive. Sharpe sets his own treatment of the collections within the wider context of Irish hagiographical studies.

Recenzje

The bulk of the study consists of a philological tour de force which displays the author's thoroughness in philology and textual criticism ... Sharpe has set very high standards for his own future publications.

Spis treści

Note on references; Part I. Introduction: The writing of saints' lives in medieval Ireland; The background to Act Sanctorum Hiberniae; Modern scholars and their methods; Part II. The Textual Evidence: Manuscripts of the Dublin collection; A paradigm of the Dublin collection: Vita IV S. Brigitae; Applying the paradigm: St Patrick and St Maedoc; The collection in the Codex Salmanticensis; Manuscripts of the Oxford collection; A group of texts in SO; The O'Donohue group in SDO; The value of the textual evidence; Part III. The Collectors and Their Sources: The compilation of the Dublin collection; The milieux of the later collections; Coda; Bibliography; Index