Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008222930/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 30 of
30
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""Everyone knows of St. Patrick, but what do we know about him? Simply that it was he who 'converted the Irish to Christianity'. The strange fact is that for two hundred years or so after his death, although his name was remembered with respect, everything else about him was forgotten." "E. A. Thompson pieces together the story of his life, drawing his evidence from the only real clues that exist, Patrick's own writings, not from the later Lives. He reveals him as coming from a well-to-do nominally Christian family in Britain, being captured by Irish raiders and forced into slavery in Co Mayo, converting to a most earnest Christianity, and eventually escaping from Ireland to the fulfilment of his calling. As a bishop, he is shown to have been a man of profound originality, and his writings - his Confession and his Letter to Coroticus - further display his character. It is no surprise that a host of legends became attached to his name, and the biography is completed with a look at some of those early legends."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11438247.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Everyone knows of St. Patrick, but what do we know about him? Simply that it was he who 'converted the Irish to Christianity'. The strange fact is that for two hundred years or so after his death, although his name was remembered with respect, everything else about him was forgotten." "E. A. Thompson pieces together the story of his life, drawing his evidence from the only real clues that exist, Patrick's own writings, not from the later Lives. He reveals him as coming from a well-to-do nominally Christian family in Britain, being captured by Irish raiders and forced into slavery in Co Mayo, converting to a most earnest Christianity, and eventually escaping from Ireland to the fulfilment of his calling. As a bishop, he is shown to have been a man of profound originality, and his writings - his Confession and his Letter to Coroticus - further display his character. It is no surprise that a host of legends became attached to his name, and the biography is completed with a look at some of those early legends."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Birth and family -- Enslavement -- Family -- Birth -- His boyhood sin -- 2. Slavery and escape -- A slave in Ireland -- The escape to the sea -- The voyage and the desert -- The second enslavement -- An adventurous theory".
- catalog description "3. The return home -- The return home -- Education and language -- Dreams -- 4. Palladius -- Palladius and Pelagius -- Palladius and Ireland -- Christianity among the northern barbarians -- Christian missions".
- catalog description "5. Patrick appointed bishop -- Patrick's narrative -- The meaning of the narrative -- Bishop at last -- 6. The mission to the Irish -- The aims of the new bishop -- Patrick's achievement -- Finances".
- catalog description "7. The confession -- The character of the Confession -- Patrick and nationalism -- What readers is Patrick addressing? -- 8. Coroticus -- Who was Coroticus? -- Patrick and the epistle -- 9. Conclusion.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-185) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxxii, 190 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0851157173 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Rochester, NY : Boydell Press,".
- catalog spatial "Ireland".
- catalog subject "270.2/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "BR1720.P26 T48 1999".
- catalog subject "Christian saints Ireland Biography.".
- catalog subject "Patrick, Saint, 373?-463?".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Birth and family -- Enslavement -- Family -- Birth -- His boyhood sin -- 2. Slavery and escape -- A slave in Ireland -- The escape to the sea -- The voyage and the desert -- The second enslavement -- An adventurous theory".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. The return home -- The return home -- Education and language -- Dreams -- 4. Palladius -- Palladius and Pelagius -- Palladius and Ireland -- Christianity among the northern barbarians -- Christian missions".
- catalog tableOfContents "5. Patrick appointed bishop -- Patrick's narrative -- The meaning of the narrative -- Bishop at last -- 6. The mission to the Irish -- The aims of the new bishop -- Patrick's achievement -- Finances".
- catalog tableOfContents "7. The confession -- The character of the Confession -- Patrick and nationalism -- What readers is Patrick addressing? -- 8. Coroticus -- Who was Coroticus? -- Patrick and the epistle -- 9. Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Who was Saint Patrick? / E.A. Thompson ; with a new preface by Colmán Etchingham.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".