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Ireland and her neighbours in the seventh century : Michael Richter.

Title
Ireland and her neighbours in the seventh century : Michael Richter.
Author
Richter, Michael, 1943-
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

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256 pages; 25 cm
Summary
  • "Irish society was first outside the Roman Empire to receive Christianity, and to do so in Latin, as was to become customary elsewhere in the West. Because of the use of Latin, Christian culture was accessible to non-Irish scholars, both at-home-and abroad. The 'long' seventh century (c. 563-731) presented in this book is comparatively well documented. Why did Christians come to Ireland from abroad? Why, by contrast, did Irish Christians leave their native country to live abroad?
  • How did manuscripts travel? These are some of the central questions posed in this book."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Ireland
  • Seventh century
  • Ireland > Civilization > To 1172
  • Ireland > European influences
  • Europe > Irish influences
  • Ireland > Relations > Europe
  • Europe > Relations > Ireland
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-250) and index.
Contents
1. Irish society in the seventh century. Economy and settlement. Epidemics. Law. Religion -- Pt. I. The Irish Abroad. 2. The Irish concept of peregrinatio. 3. Britain: Iona. St. Colum Cille of Iona (c. 521-597). Adomnan (c. 627-704). 4. Britain: Northumbria. The political background. Irishmen in Northumbria. 5. Continental Europe. Columbanus. Peronna Scottorum: Fursa, Kilian, Romanus -- Pt. II. Foreigners in Ireland. 6. Foreigners in Ireland. The political and cultural background. Individual cases -- Pt. III. Ubera Sapientiae. 7. Ubera Sapientiae. Utriusque linguae peritus. Hiberno-Latin grammars. Early Irish manuscripts. Biblical studies. Hymnology. Computistics. The collectio Canonum Hibernensis. St. Martin in early Christian Ireland. Philippus Presbyter.
ISBN
0312220758 (cloth)
LCCN
98037332
OCLC
ocm39859996
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries