| Description |
1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Studies in Celtic history ; XXXVII |
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Studies in Celtic history ; 37.
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| Contents |
Frontcover; Contents; List of Tables; Editor's Preface; Map: Places associated with St Samson in the First Life; 1. Introduction: 'Getting Somewhere' with the First Life of St Samson of Dol; 2. A Family and its Saint in the Vita Prima Samsonis; 3. L a Circulation de l'information dans la Vie ancienne de s. Samson de Dol et la question de sa datation; 4. The Hare and the Tortoise? Vita Prima Sancti Samsonis, Vita Paterni, and Merovingian Hagiography; 5. Columbanus, the Britons, and the Merovingian Church |
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6. Apostolic Authority and Celtic Liturgies: from the Vita Samsonis to the Ratio de cursus7. The Representation of Early British Monasticism and Peregrinatio in Vita Prima S. Samsonis; 8. Present and Yet Absent: the Cult of St Samson of Dol in Wales; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
New essays shed light on the mysterious St Samson of Dol and his Vita |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-208) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Samson, Saint, Bishop of Dol, -565 fast |
| Subject |
Christian saints -- France -- Brittany
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Christian saints, Celtic.
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RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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Christian saints
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Christian saints, Celtic
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England -- Cornwall (County)
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France -- Brittany
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Wales
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olson, Lynette, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781787440319 |
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1787440311 |
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