St Samson of Dol and the earliest history of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales / edited by Lynette Olson.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in Celtic history ; 37.Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2017Description: 1 online resource (vii, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781787440319 (ebook)Subject(s): Samson, Saint, Bishop of Dol, -565 | Christian saints, Celtic | Celtic Church -- History -- To 1500 -- SourcesAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 235/.2 LOC classification: BX4700.S3 | S77 2017Online resources: Click here to access onlineItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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1. Introduction: 'Getting somewhere' with the First life of St Samson of Dol / Lynette Olson -- 2. A family and its saint in the Vita prima Samsonis / Richard Sowerby -- 3. La circulation de l'information dans la Vie ancienne de s. Samson de Dol et la question de sa datation / Joseph-Claude Poulin -- 4. The hare and the tortoise? : Vita prima Sancti Samsonis, Vita paterni and Merovingian hagiography / Caroline Brett -- 5. Columbanus, the Britons and the Merovingian church / Ian N. Wood -- 6. Apostolic authority and Celtic liturgies : from the Vita Samsonis to the Ratio de cursus / Constant J. Mews -- 7. The representation of early British monasticism and peregrinatio in Vita prima S. Samsonis / Jonathan M. Wooding -- 8. Present and yet absent : the cult of St Samson of Dol in Wales / Karen Jankulak.
The First Life of St Samson of Dol (Vita Prima Samsonis) is a key text for the study of early Welsh, Cornish, Breton and indeed west Frankish history. In the twentieth century it was the subject of unresolved scholarly controversy that tended to limit its usefulness. However, more recent research has firmly re-established its significance as a historical source. This volume presents the results of new, multi-disciplinary, assessment of the text and its context. What emerges from the studies collected here is a context of greater plausibility for the First Life of St Samson of Dol as an early and essentially historical text, potentially at the centre of early British Christianity and its influence on the Continent. The landscape of that Christianity is gradually emerging from the shadows and it is a landscape in which the career of St Samson, the first Insular peregrinus, is shown to be of considerable importance. Lynette Olson is an Honorary Associate of the Department of History, University of Sydney. Contributors: Caroline Brett, Karen Jankulak, Constant J. Mews, Lynette Olson, Joseph-Claude Poulin, Richard Sowerby, Ian N. Wood, Jonathan M. Wooding.
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