Dictionary Of Celtic Saints

Author : Elizabeth Rees
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752490176
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Celtic Saints written by Elizabeth Rees and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Celtic world, in Britain, Ireland and France, the early Christian saints left a profound legacy to the history and culture of Northern Europe. This is the first ever dictionary of Celtic saints and is fully illustrated with photographs of where each saint lived and worked, ranging from ruined monasteries to holy wells, and from caves to Roman and Celtic forts. The reader is therefore drawn into the beautiful world which these men and women inhabited, while also being able to trace the history and legend surrounding these early British Christians. Easy to use, with an Introduction and maps to pinpoint the sites described in the text, A Dictionary of Celtic Saints will appeal to anyone interested in history, landscape or spirituality. Based on sound scholarship, it will also be helpful to students of civilisation and culture. Elizabeth Rees is a Roman Catholic nun with a Master's degree from Oxford. She is one of Britain's leading authorities on the Celtic saints and is the author of many books on the early Christian world.

Author : Pádraig Ó Riain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846823183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Irish Saints written by Pádraig Ó Riain and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical monuments. Professor Pádraig Ó Riain's Dictionary of Irish Saints is intended to serve as a guide to the (mainly documentary) sources of information on the saints named in these dedications, for those who have an interest in them, scholarly or otherwise. The need for a summary biographical dictionary of Irish saints, containing information on such matters as feastdays, localisations, chronology, and genealogies, although stressed over sixty years ago by the eminent Jesuit and Bollandist scholar, Paul Grosjean, has never before been satisfied. Professor Ó Riain has been working in the field of Irish hagiography for upwards of forty years, and the material for the over 1,000 entries in his Dictionary has come from a variety of sources, including Lives of the saints, martyrologies, genealogies of the saints, shorter tracts on the saints (some of them accessible only in manuscripts), annals, annates, collections of folklore, Ordnance Survey letters, and other documents. Running to almost 700 pages, the body of the Dictionary is preceded by a Preface, List of Sources and Introduction, and is followed by comprehensive Indices of Parishes, Other Places (mainly townlands), Alternate (mainly Anglicised) Names, Subjects, and Feastdays. Professor Ó Riain's Dictionary has been described as 'an astonishingly comprehensive, intelligent and well-organized work'; it is unlikely to be superseded for many decades to come.

Author : Elizabeth Rees
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752490176
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Celtic Saints written by Elizabeth Rees and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Celtic world, in Britain, Ireland and France, the early Christian saints left a profound legacy to the history and culture of Northern Europe.This is the first ever dictionary of Celtic saints and is fully illustrated with photographs of where each saint lived and worked, ranging from ruined monasteries to holy wells, and from caves to Roman and Celtic forts. The reader is therefore drawn into the beautiful world which these men and women inhabited, while also being able to trace the history and legend surrounding these early British Christians. Easy to use, with an Introduction and maps to pinpoint the sites described in the text, A Dictionary of Celtic Saints will appeal to anyone interested in history, landscape or spirituality. Based on sound scholarship, it will also be helpful to students of civilisation and culture.Elizabeth Rees is a Roman Catholic nun with a Master’s degree from Oxford. She is one of Britain’s leading authorities on the Celtic saints and is the author of many books on the early Christian world.

Author : Elizabeth Rees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752493459
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celtic Saints of Wales written by Elizabeth Rees and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books about Celtic saints are based on their legendary medieval lives. This book, however, is based upon our earliest surviving information: a study of the sites where these early Christians lived and worked. Archaeology, combined with early inscriptions and texts offers us important clues which help us to piece together something of the fascinating world of early Welsh Christianity. The book is illustrated with the author’s own evocative photographs of where each saint lived and worked. The reader is therefore drawn into the beautiful world which these men and women inhabited. Follows on from the popular A Dictionary of Celtic Saints and Celtic Saints of Ireland

Author : Alison Jones
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781853263194
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Saints written by Alison Jones and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Rees
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492918
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celtic Saints of Ireland written by Elizabeth Rees and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books about Celtic saints are based on their legendary medieval lives. This book, however, is based upon our earliest surviving information: an examination of the sites where these early Christians lived and worked. Archaeology, combined with the study of place names, inscribed stones and early texts, offers us important clues which help us to piece together something of the fascinating world of early Irish Christianity. Elizabeth Rees, an acknowledged authority on Celtic Christianity, has produced this insightful history which is the first in an exciting new series. Illustrated throughout with her own evocative photographs of where these saints resided and worked, the reader is drawn into the beautiful world which these men and women inhabited.

Author : James MacKillop
Publisher : Oxford Reference Collection
ISBN 13 : 9780198804840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology written by James MacKillop and published by Oxford Reference Collection. This book was released on 2017-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format.A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology is a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the world's richest mythological traditions. It covers the people, themes, concepts, places, and creatures of Celtic mythology, saga, legend, and folklore from both ancient pagan origins, and moderntraditions.

Author : Colin Waters
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Saints Days, Fasts, Feasts and Festivals written by Colin Waters and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family, local and general historians all rely heavily upon dates. One frequent difficulty, though, is the regular reference in documents and accounts to Saints' Days, Quarter Days and other holy days. Such days meant a great deal to our ancestors in their daily lives and were referred to in everything from legal documents and newspaper accounts, to private letters and diaries.

Author : Pádraig Ó Riain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781801510196
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Supplement to a Dictionary of Irish Saints written by Pádraig Ó Riain and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ten years since its publication by Four Courts Press in 2011 A dictionary of Irish saints has attracted a large amount of supplementary material, mainly through comments and corrections provided by readers, colleagues and reviewers. As these are to be included in a planned second edition of the Dictionary, it is felt by both Press and author that those who own a copy of the first edition should also benefit from them through this publication.

Author : Martin H. Manser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007169504
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Saints written by Martin H. Manser and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the UK's leading reference publishers, comes an approachable and authoritative guide to Saints, old and new. The Collins Dictionary of Saints includes Saints from all around the world and across the millennia, giving a fascinating -- and sometimes intriguing -- insight into the lives and achievements of the men and women of God. From such little-known local Saints as Cadoc, the Welsh abbot who lived the life of a hermit on the island of Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel, to such pillars of the church as Saints Peter and Paul, and from the violent tendencies of Joan of Arc to the archetypal peacemaker, Francis of Assisi, this is the only guide you need. Special features include details of Patron Saints, the places they came from and worked in, and their activities. The dictionary also notes the latest additions to have joined the canon and those most likely to join in the near future. There is also a list of Saints who have been de-canonised formally or who perhaps should have been, either for their scandalous living or unholy actions -- and those who have gained a Sainthood under false pretences. This is a compelling read for those wanting a popular historical perspectiv