Studies in Irish hagiography
Subtitle: saints and scholars
By: John Carey, Máire Herbert & Pádraig Ó Riain, editors.
Contributors: Carey, John, 1957-; Herbert, Máire.; Ó Riain, Pádraig.
Publisher: Four Courts
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Christian hagiography -- Congresses.; Christian saints -- Ireland -- Congresses.; Ireland -- Church history -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-392) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. The Columban tradition; title: II. Traditions of other Irish saints; title: III. Irish saints and Brittany; title: IV. Irish saints' lives in continental Europe; title: V. Approaches to the study of Irish hagiography; title: VI. Hagiographical scholarship : from seventeenth-century beginnings to contemporary projects.