Clavis Patricii II: Libri Epistolarum Sancti Patricii Episcopi

ISBN-13: 9781874045113 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 294 str.

Ludwig Bieler

Opis

This, the fourth volume in the series of Ancillary Publications to the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources, reprints the definitive edition of two of the most significant works in the corpus of Celtic-Latin literature. The ever fascinating questions concerning the life, personality and achievements of St Patrick have come to constitute a field of study in their own right, and scholars working on these matters must naturally turn to his own writings-the Confessio and the Epistola ad milites Corotici- for their primary evidence. But it also the case that (apart perhaps from some brief inscriptions) these texts by the national apostle are the only ones in any language to survive from fifth-century Ireland. They therefore have to be taken into account by historians, theologians, archaeologists, geographers, linguists, Celticists and any others attempting to shed light on those obscure times. The late Professor Bieler's edition, issued twice before but long out of print, is preceded in the present series by a computer-generated Concordance whose references are keyed to it. It is followed by a full Bibliography of St Patrick.