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St Samson of Dol and the Earliest History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales

by Lynette Olson, Caroline Brett

  • Hardback
  • 200 pages
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

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The First Life of St Samson of Dol (Vita Prima Samsonis) is a key text for the study of early Welsh, Cornish, Breton and indeed west Frankish history. In the twentieth century it was the subject of unresolved scholarly controversy that tended to limit its usefulness. However, more recent research has firmly re-established its significance as a historical source. This volume presents the results of new, multi-disciplinary, assessment of the text and its context. What emerges from the studies collected here is a context of greater plausibility for the First Life of St Samson of Dol as an early and essentially historical text, potentially at the centre of early British Christianity and its influence on the Continent. The landscape of that Christianity is gradually emerging from the shadows and it is a landscape in which the career of St Samson, the first Insular peregrinus, is shown to be of considerable importance. Lynette Olson is an Honorary Associate of the Department of History, University of Sydney. Contributors: Caroline Brett, Karen Jankulak, Constant J. Mews, Lynette Olson, Joseph-Claude Poulin, Richard Sowerby, Ian N. Wood, Jonathan M. Wooding.
St Samson of Dol and the Earliest History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales and Early Monasteries in Cornwall
Early Monasteries in CornwallSt Samson of Dol and the Earliest History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales

  • Authors

    Lynette Olson +2

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Boydell & Brewer Ltd

  • Published

    June 2017

  • Weight

    504g

  • Page Count

    200

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781783272181

  • ISBN-10

    178327218X

  • Eden Code

    4502382

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