Saint Patrick's World

By Liam de Paor

Book Overview

Gathering together a number of texts written in Latin in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, the author illustrates the spread of Christianity through Western Europe to Ireland and attempts to show how the western church was organized at that time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268017573
• ISBN13: 9780268017576
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

It is good book for people to study saint patrick.

If you want to know about the ireland context in the Saint Patrick's age you can buy this book. It is very good.

A treasure trove of materials.

This is a collection of translations of the writings of St. Patrick, his contemporaries, and heirs, with expert commentary by De Paor. He begins with an introduction to European Christianity at the time of St. Patrick. Included in the documents are the accounts of various councils and synods connected to the evangelization of Ireland, the writings of St. Patrick himself, and the annals, letters, and lives written by and of St. Patrick's followers. This is a treasure trove of materials for research into the life of St. Patrick.