Medieval Irish saints' lives : an introduction to vitae sanctorum Hiberniae /
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| Author / Creator: | Sharpe, Richard |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991. |
| Description: | ix, 427 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1120252 |
Table of Contents:
- Note on references
- Part 1. Introduction: The writing of saints' lives in medieval Ireland
- The background to Act Sanctorum Hiberniae
- Modern scholars and their methods
- Part 2. 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 3. The Collectors and Their Sources: The compilation of the Dublin collection
- The milieux of the later collections
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index