The Irish Scholarly Presence at St. Gall - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Irish Scholarly Presence at St. Gall write by Sven Meeder. This book was released on 2018-03-22. The Irish Scholarly Presence at St. Gall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Carolingian period represented a Golden Age for the abbey of St Gall, an Alpine monastery in modern-day Switzerland. Its bloom of intellectual activity resulted in an impressive number of scholarly texts being copied into often beautifully written manuscripts, many of which survive in the abbey's library to this day. Among these books are several of Irish origin, while others contain works of learning originally written in Ireland. This study explores the practicalities of the spread of this Irish scholarship to St Gall and the reception it received once there. In doing so, this book for the first time investigates a part of the network of knowledge that fed this important Carolingian centre of learning with scholarship. By focusing on scholarly works from Ireland, this study also sheds light on the contribution of the Irish to the Carolingian revival of learning. Historians have often assumed a special relationship between Ireland and the abbey of St Gall, which was built on the grave of the Irish saint Gallus. This book scrutinises this notion of a special connection. The result is a new viewpoint on the spread and reception of Irish learning in the Carolingian period.
The Irish in Early Medieval Europe
The Irish in Early Medieval Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Irish in Early Medieval Europe write by Roy Flechner. This book was released on 2017-09-16. The Irish in Early Medieval Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Irish scholars who arrived in Continental Europe in the early Middle Ages are often credited with making some of the most important contributions to European culture and learning of the time, from the introduction of a new calendar to monastic reform. Among them were celebrated personalities such as St Columbanus, John Scottus Eriugena, and Sedulius Scottus who were in the vanguard of a constant stream of arrivals from Ireland to continental Europe, collectively known as 'peregrini'. The continental response to this Irish 'diaspora' ranged from admiration to open hostility, especially when peregrini were deemed to challenge prevalent cultural or spiritual conventions. This volume brings together leading historians, archaeologists, and palaeographers who provide-for the first time-a comprehensive assessment of the phenomenon of Irish peregrini in their continental context and the manner in which it is framed by modern scholarship as well as the popular imagination.
Her Father’s Daughter
Her Father’s Daughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Her Father’s Daughter write by Lucy K. Pick. This book was released on 2017-11-15. Her Father’s Daughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Her Father's Daughter, Lucy K. Pick considers a group of royal women in the early medieval kingdoms of the Asturias and of León-Castilla; their lives say a great deal about structures of power and the roles of gender and religion within the early Iberian kingdoms. Pick examines these women, all daughters of kings, as members of networks of power that work variously in parallel, in concert, and in resistance to some forms of male power, and contends that only by mapping these networks do we gain a full understanding of the nature of monarchical power. Pick's focus on the roles, possibilities, and limitations faced by these royal women forces us to reevaluate medieval gender norms and their relationship to power and to rethink the power structures of the era. Well illustrated with images of significant objects, Her Father's Daughter is marked by Pick's wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach, which encompasses liturgy, art, manuscripts, architecture, documentary texts, historical narratives, saints' lives, theological treatises, and epigraphy.
Learning Latin and Greek from Antiquity to the Present
Learning Latin and Greek from Antiquity to the Present - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Learning Latin and Greek from Antiquity to the Present write by Elizabeth P. Archibald. This book was released on 2015-02-26. Learning Latin and Greek from Antiquity to the Present available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides a unique overview of the complete histories of Latin and Greek as second languages.
The Early Irish Monastic Schools
The Early Irish Monastic Schools - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Early Irish Monastic Schools write by Hugh Graham. This book was released on 1923. The Early Irish Monastic Schools available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
