Opis: The Life and Writings of St. Patrick - Healy Healy

Excerpt from The Life and Writings of St. Patrick: With Appendices, Etc

Our chief purpose in writing this new Life of St Patrick, when so many Lives already exist, is to give a fuller and, we venture to hope, more exact account of the Saint's missionary labours in Ireland than any that has appeared since the Tripartite Life was first written. For this purpose we have not only thoroughly studied Colgan's great work, and made ourselves familiar with the really valuable publications of our own times, but we have, when practicable, personally visited all the scenes of the Saint's labours, both at home and abroad, so as to be able to give a local colouring to the dry record, and also to catch up, as far as possible the echoes, daily growing fainter, of the once vivid traditions of the past,

We have no new views to put forward. We shall seek to follow the authority of the ancient writers of the Acts of St. Patrick, which we regard as in the main trustworthy. Those who do not like miracles can pass them over, but the ancient writers believed in them, and even when purely imaginary these miraculous stories have an historical and critical value of their own.

We find it convenient to classify our authorities into three divisions. The Ancient authorities are those that flourished before the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland, that is before A.D. 1172. The medival authorities will include all those who make reference to St Patrick's Acts down to the beginning of the 17th century. The Modern authorities will comprehend the rest, including Colgan and Usher, who have written from that date (A.D. 1600) to the present time.

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Szczegóły: The Life and Writings of St. Patrick - Healy Healy

Nazwa: The Life and Writings of St. Patrick With Appendices, Etc (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Healy Healy
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781332536160
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 780
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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