Author: Catholic ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Martyrologies
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Roman and British Martyrology
Author: Catholic ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Martyrologies
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Modern British Martyrology
Author: The Old English Martyrology
Author: Christine RauerPublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 1843843471
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text.
An Old English Martyrology (1900)
Author: George HerzfeldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429870256
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
First published in 1900, this Reader uses four manuscripts from the British Museum and Corpus Christi College Cambridge to present a thorough introduction along with a dual-language edition of the text. The original manuscripts, as Herzfeld demonstrates, are of varying qualities and comprise of the Anglian, West Saxon, Kentish and Mercian dialects. The re-edited text is presented alongside historical remarks, criticism of the manuscript, the text’s ultimate date and place of origin and an exploration of its potential sources.
An Old English Martyrology
Author: Georg HerzfeldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian martyrs
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Medieval Hagiography
Author: Thomas HeadPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317325141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
This collection presents-through the medium of translated sources-a comprehensive guide to the development of hagiography and the cult of the saints in western Christendom during the middle ages. It provides an unparalleled resource for the study of the ideals of sanctity and the practice of religion in the medieval west. Intended for the classroom, for the medieval scholar who wishes to explore sources in unfamiliar languages, and for the general reader fascinated by the saints, this collection provides the reader a chance to explore in depth a full range of writings about the saints (the term hagiography is derived from Greek roots: hagios=holy and graphe=writing). The thirty-six chapters contain sources either in their entirety or in selections of substantial length. The great majority of the texts have never previously appeared in English translation. Those which have appeared in earlier translation, are here presented in versions based on significant new textual and historical scholarship which makes them significant improvements on the earlier versions. All the translations are accompanied by introductions, notes, and suggestions for further reading in order to help guide the reader. The first selections date to the fourth century, when the ideals of Christian sanctity were evolving to meet the demands of a world in which Christianity was an accepted religion and when the public veneration of relics was growing greatly in scope. The last selections date to the period immediately prior to the Reformation, a period in which the traditional concept of sanctity and acceptability of de cult of relics was being questioned. In addition to numerous works from the clerical languages of Latin and Greek, the selections include translations from Romance, Celtic, Germanic, and Slavic vernacular languages, s well as Hebrew texts concerning the martyrdom of Jews at the hands of Christians. Originating in lands from Iceland to Hungary and from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, they are taken from a full range of the many genres which constituted hagiography: lives of the saints, collections of miracle stories, accounts of the discovery or movement of relics, liturgical books, visions, canonization inquests, and even heresy trials.
The Roman Martyrology
Author: Pseudo-martyr
Author: John DonnePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773509948
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Pseudo-Martyr was Donne's first published work and the only one he wrote as a lawyer. It is also an autobiographical document which reveals how Donne resolved his own lapse from Catholicism so that he could remain loyal to the king. A descendant of Thomas More's sister, Donne had inherited a rich tradition from the Counter-Reformation, which he sought to reconcile with the political absolutes of his day. Anthony Raspa provides a definitive critical edition of this long-neglected work, setting it in its historical context and making the forest of quotations and references given by Donne in the main body of the text and its margins intelligible to the modern reader.
A Dictionary of English Church History
Author: Gordon CrossePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Britannia Sancta: Or, The Lives of the Most Celebrated British, English, Scottish, and Irish Saints: who Have Flourished in These Islands, from the Earliest Times of Christianity, Down to the Change of Religion in the Sixteenth Century. Faithfully Collected from Their Ancient Acts, and Other Records of British History..
Author: Richard ChallonerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description