Jennifer O'Reilly

History, Hagiography and Biblical Exegesis (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Bede, Adomnán and Thomas Becket
Redaktion: Maccarron, Máirín; Scully, Diarmuid

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of 16 essays, old and new, relating history and exegesis in the writings of Bede and Adomnán, and in the lives of Thomas Becket.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429588617
• Artikelnr.: 56959611

Autorenporträt

Jennifer O'Reilly received her B.A. Honours degree in History in 1964, and her Ph.D. in Art History in 1972, both in the University of Nottingham. Her monograph, Studies in the Iconography of the Virtues and Vices in the Middle Ages was published in 1988. A book of essays in her honour was published in 2011: Listen, o isles, unto me: studies in medieval word and image.

Dr Máirín MacCarron is a Senior Researcher at the University of Sheffield. She has published on Women in Medieval Society, the Development of Chronology and Computus in the Early Middle Ages, and Network Science and Digital Humanities.

Dr Diarmuid Scully lectures in the School of History, University College Cork. His research interests include Bede and the textual and visual representation of late antique and medieval Insular identities.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. Introduction to Bede. On the Temple
((xvii-lv), in Translated Texts for Historians, vol. 21 tr. Seán Connolly
(1995))
2. Islands and idols at the ends of the earth: exegesis and conversion in
Bede's Historia ecclesiastica
((119-145), in Bède le vénérable. Entre tradition et posterité, ed.
Stephane Lebecq, Michel Perrin and Olivier Szerwiniack (2005))
3. Bede on seeing the God of gods in Zion
((3-29), in Text, image and interpretation. Studies in Anglo-Saxon
literature and its Insular context in honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin, ed.
Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts (2007))
4. The multitude of isles and the corner-stone: topography, exegesis and
the identity of the Angli in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica
((201-27), in Anglo-Saxon Traces, ed. Jane Roberts and Leslie Webster
(2011))
5. St Paul and the sign of Jonah. Theology and Scripture in Bede's Historia
Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
('St Paul and the Sign of Jonah. Theology and Scripture in Bede's Historia
Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum', was delivered in The Jarrow Lecture 2014
and published in 2018 by The Parish Church Council of St. Paul's Church,
Jarrow.)
6. Bede and Monothelitism
7. Bede and the Dating of Easter: The image of the Mediator in the writings
of Bede
8. Reading the Scriptures in the Life of Columba
((80-106), in Studies in the cult of St Columba, ed. Cormac Bourke (1997))
9. The wisdom of the scribe and the fear of the Lord in the Life of St
Columba
((159-211), in Spes Scotorum. Hope of Scots, ed. Dauvit Broun and Thomas
Owen Clancy (1999))
10. Adomnán and the art of teaching spiritual sons
((69-94), in Adomnán of Iona: theologian, lawmaker and peacemaker, ed.
Jonathan Wooding, Thomas O'Loughlin et al. (2010))
11. Columba at Clonmacnoise
((380-390), in Sacred Histories. A Festschrift for Máire Herbert, ed. John
Carey, Kevin Murray and Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (2015))
12. The Bible as Map, On Seeing God and Finding the Way: Pilgrimage and
Exegesis in Adomnán and Bede
((210-226), in Place and Space in the Medieval World, ed. Meg Boulton, Jane
Hawkes and Heidi Stoner (2018))
13. Candidus et rubicundus: an image of martyrdom in the Lives of Thomas
Becket
((303-14), in Analecta Bollandiana 99 (1981))
14. The double martyrdom of Thomas Becket: hagiography or history?
((185-247), in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History 7 (1985))
Index