St Samson of Dol and the Earliest History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales
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- ISBN 9781783272181
- Weight: 431g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2017
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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New essays shed light on the mysterious St Samson of Dol and his Vita.
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 textand 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.
Emeritus Professor CONSTANT J. MEWS taught at Monash University, where he was Director of the Centre for Religious Studies within its School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies. He is interested in medieval religious thought and intellectual history of the Latin West, particularly the development of theology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
