The Martyrology of the Regensburg Schottenkloster (Henry Bradshaw Society): 124 - Hardcover

Pádraig Ó Riain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1907497366 ISBN 13: 9781907497360

Publisher: Boydell and Brewer, 2019

Synopsis

The earliest Irish martyrology was compiled in prose and verse at Tallaght, near Dublin, about the year 830. Little has hitherto been known of its circulation before the period 1150-60, when the surviving copy of the prose version was made. Now, through the martyrology of the Regensburg Schottenkloster, we know that a copy of the metrical version had reached Bavaria in the southern part of Germany by the late tenth century, where it was used, first by the Irish monks of the Regensburg Schottenkloster, then as a source of entries in other local German martyrologies. The martyrology, edited here for the first time, bears witness, therefore, to the circulation in Bavaria of this originally Irish compilation and, together with other documents, shows how the Scottish Benedictine monks, who succeeded the Irish in several monasteries in southern Germany and Austria, adapted to their own use a number of essentially Irish liturgical documents.

Emeritus Professor Pdraig Riain is a member of the Placenames Commission of Ireland and one of the editors of the Locus project.

About this edition

• Publisher: Boydell and Brewer
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1907497366
• ISBN 13: 9781907497360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264