Monday, December 29, 2014

Patrick Fleming and the Letters of Columbanus

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The First Printed Edition of Columbanus' works by Patrick Fleming in 1667 The Irish monastic leader Columbanus wrote several letters...
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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Celebrating Christmas with Wise Men from Ireland

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Sedulius Scottus, (fl. 840-860) lived in Liège at a time when Irish scholarly influence in western Europe was at its zenith. He was a scr...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Live in Christ, that Christ may live in you

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"I live, yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me, he who for me has died; for that is the cry of the elect. But none can die to himse...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

Massive Scribal Hangovers: One Ninth Century Confession

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Codex Sangallensis 904, page 204, a ninth century copy of Priscian's Latin grammar with an ogham gloss in the top margin Medieval Ir...
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Saturday, December 6, 2014

The Apertio Aurium and Illuminated Manuscripts

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Book of Kells folio 27v Insular illuminated manuscripts like the Book of Kells often contain a page with the symbols of the four evangel...
Friday, November 28, 2014

The sole sufficiency of grace: A ninth century Irish reflection

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Sedulius Scottus (fl. 840-860) was an Irish theologian and teacher who emigrated to Liège (Belgium) during the reign of holy Roman emperor L...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

A Poem for an old Manuscript

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Irish poets were the first Europeans to write in the vernacular. A tenth century Irish poem - preserved in UCD manuscript MS A 9 - describe...