Product Description: Originally published in 1986, this book gives a detailed account of the manuscripts in Cambridge written wholly or partly in the Irish language. Most are in the Cambridge University Library, but relevant works in the libraries of Corpus Christi, Emmanuel, St John's and Trinity Colleges and in the Fitzwilliam Museum have also been included...read more

Product Description: The Corpous Apocryphum Hiberniae is organised by a number of distinguished specialists, including Father Martin McNamara, MSC. Some of the Apocrypha are preserved only in Old Irish. To focus research on the Apocrypha Hiberniae is to bring into view the milieu of Old Ireland, its links with the Holy Land, and the complex and creative traditions that enlivened the earliest Christians who endeavoured to imagine the lives of Jesus, his family, and his earliest followers...read more

Product Description: This is a study of the history and documentary records of one of Ireland's most important early monastic communities, the familia of St. Columba, between the 6th and 12th centuries. Focusing on three major hagiographies--the Vita Columbae of Adomnán, the Life of Adomnán, and an Irish life of Colum Cille--Herbert combines historical, linguistic, and literary analysis to trace the internal developments and external relations of the familia through the centuries, and demonstrate how detailed analysis of saints' lives can illuminate contemporary concerns, attitudes, and events...read more

Product Description: This is a study of the history and documentary records of one of Ireland's most important early monastic communities, the familia of St. Columba, between the 6th and 12th centuries. Focusing on three major hagiographies--the Vita Columbae of Adomnán, the Life of Adomnán, and an Irish life of Colum Cille--Herbert combines historical, linguistic, and literary analysis to trace the internal developments and external relations of the familia through the centuries, and demonstrate how detailed analysis of saints' lives can illuminate contemporary concerns, attitudes, and events...read more