Saint Patrick Retold (eBook)

The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint

Roy Flechner (Autor)

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2019
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19001-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Roy Flechner is lecturer in early medieval history at University College Dublin. He is the coeditor of several books, including The Irish in Early Medieval Europe and The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World. He lives in Dublin.

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A gripping biography that brings together the most recent research to shed provocative new light on the life of Saint PatrickSaint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by rumors that he settled in Ireland for financial gain, the man who was to become Ireland's patron saint battled against great odds before succeeding as a missionary. Saint Patrick Retold draws on recent research to offer a fresh assessment of Patrick's travails and achievements. This is the first biography in nearly fifty years to explore Patrick's career against the background of historical events in late antique Britain and Ireland.Roy Flechner examines the likelihood that Patrick, like his father before him, might have absconded from a career as an imperial official responsible for taxation, preferring instead to migrate to Ireland with his family's slaves, who were his source of wealth. Flechner leaves no stone unturned as he takes readers on a riveting journey through Romanized Britain and late Iron Age Ireland, and he considers how best to interpret the ambiguous literary and archaeological evidence from this period of great political and economic instability, a period that brought ruin for some and opportunity for others. Rather than a dismantling of Patrick's reputation, or an argument against his sainthood, Flechner's biography raises crucial questions about self-image and the making of a reputation.From boyhood deeds to the challenges of a missionary enterprise, Saint Patrick Retold steps beyond established narratives to reassess a notable figure's life and legacy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.3.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b/w illus. 2 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Abbot of Iona • Allusion • Ambiguity • Analogy • Anecdote • Apostasy • archaeology • Biography • Brigantes • Brooch • burial • Byrne • Catechumen • Christian • Christian Church • Christianity • Christian monasticism • Clergy • Clonmacnoise • Columba • consecration • Constantine the Great • Continental Europe • County Mayo • Decurion (administrative) • deity • diocletian • Dubthach • Early Irish law • Early Middle Ages • Epigraphy • Epithet • Exegesis • Fedelm • Generosity • Germanus of Auxerre • Hadrian's Wall • Hagiography • Headline • Heresy • His Family • Historiography • Ingenuus • Interesting Times • Irish annals • Iron Age • James Ussher • Jews • Late Antiquity • Literacy • Literature • Loanword • medieval Ireland • Missionary • Monastery • Monasticism • Mythological Cycle • narrative • Newgrange • New Religious Movement • New Testament • Nobility • Ogham • Old Testament • Oral tradition • Paganism • patron saint • pelagianism • Persecution • Picts • Pope Gregory I • Postliminium • Presbyter • Pretext • primary source • Prosper of Aquitaine • Protestantism • Relic • Religio • Religion • Religious Conversion • rhetoric • Roman Army • Roman Britain • Roman Empire • Roman law • Saint Patrick • Saint Patrick's Day • Sermon • Slavery • Sulpicius Severus • Tax • the monastery • The Other Hand • uniqueness • veneration • Votive offering • Wealth • Willibrord • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19001-1 / 0691190011
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19001-3 / 9780691190013