St Patrick

The Life and World of Ireland's Saint

AvJ. B. Bury

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J.B. Bury's classic biography dispels many of the myths around the saint and paints a vivid and exacting portrait of the world around St Patrick.St Patrick is perhaps the most venerated saint of the modern age, whose feast day is marked each year by massive celebrations across the world, from Dublin to New York and Sydney to Rio de Janeiro. Yet, in spite of his popularity, very little is known of his life, which is clouded by myth and uncertainty.The facts that are known - that he was born in the late fourth century in Roman Britain, was captured by Irish raiders at the age of 16 and sold into slavery, escaped six years later to Britain where he became a priest and later a bishop before returning to Ireland to proselytise - give only a vague sense of the man behind the legends.This biography reveals the influences and inspirations that transformed him from a minor fifth century missionary into the patron saint of Ireland and a source of living inspiration for countless people - the Irish above all - some 1,500 years after his death, and remains the definitive work on St Patrick.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-01-30
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780857717009
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Medarbetare:Thomas Charles-Edwards

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John Bagnell Bury (1861-1927) was an eminent British classical scholar and historian who wrote extensively on Greek, Roman and Byzantine history and was instrumental in the revival of Byzantine studies. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he was later made a fellow, he also gained a chair in Modern History at Trinity in 1893 and in 1898 was appointed Regius Professor of Greek. In 1902 he became Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, where he became a mentor to Sir Steven Runciman. Bury is famous for his major histories of the Roman Empire as well as his classic work The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians and his work on a new edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He also edited the Cambridge Ancient History and planned much of the Cambridge Medieval History.

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J.B. Bury was a great historian and he remains as readable and provocative as ever.

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ForewordPreface CHAPTER I On the Diffusion of Christianity Beyond the Roman Empire CHAPTER II The Captivity and Escape of Patrick1 Parentage and Capture2 Capture and Escape CHAPTER III In Gaul and Britain1 At Lerins2 At Home in Britain3 At Auxerre4 Palladius in Ireland (A.D. 431-2)5 Consecration of Patrick (A.D. 432) CHAPTER IV The Political and Social Condition of Ireland CHAPTER V In the Island-Plain, In Dalaradia CHAPTER VI In Meath1 King Loigarie's Policy2 Legend of Patrick's Contest with the Druids3 Loigarie's Code4 Ecclesiastical Foundations in Meath CHAPTER VII In Connaught CHAPTER VIII Foundation of Armagh and Ecclesiastical Foundation1 Visit to Rome (circa A.D. 441-3)2 Foundation of Armagh (A.D. 444)3 In South Ireland4 Church Discipline5 Ecclesiastical Organisation CHAPTER IX Writings of Patrick and his Death1 The Denunciation of Coroticus2 The Confession3 Patrick's Death and Burial (A.D. 461) CHAPTER X Patrick's Place in History Notes