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Author: Alexander O'Hara (Institute for Medieval Studies (Austria)) ,
Ian Wood (Department of History, University of Leeds (United Kingdom))
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Imprint: Liverpool University Press
Volume: 64
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9781781381779
ISBN 10: 1781381771
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 13 February 2017
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This very welcome new translation is also a highly sophisticated scholarly edition. It is particularly rich in bibliography, with an extensive listing of virtually all the secondary literature on Columban and his times. Terrence Kardong, American Benedictine Review This book is a timely and meaningful contribution to the scholarship on Merovingian Gaul. It is important not only for its accessible translation of a large and difficult corpus of works set against a complicated historical and textual background, but also for its clear synthesis of current scholarship. Finally, it elegantly succeeds in navigating the Irish vs. Frankish controversy, which seems to have reawakened of late. Yaniv Fox, Speculum There is a richness to the material which O'Hara and Wood have done us a great service in making more accessible. Jamie Kreiner, The Medieval Review
'Whatever the final outcome of contemporary debates about Columbanus, 'Columbanian Monasticism', and the influence of the Irish in continental Europe in the early Middle Ages, this volume will provide invaluable evidence (for both sides!) for many years to come.' Daibhi O Croinin, Early Medieval Europe 'This very welcome addition to Liverpool University Press's Translated Texts for Historians more than lives up to expectations for this esteemed book series [...] Alexander O'Hara and Ian Wood's volume will be an essential companion for its valuable introduction, detailed footnotes, half-dozen appendices, up-to-date bibliography, and, not least of all, high-quality translation of Jonas's often challenging Latin. [...] In sum, this is an important book, not only for the early medieval texts it makes available to a much wider potential readership but also for the exceptional scholarship that went into the presentation and translation of those texts.' Westley Follett, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 'This very welcome new translation is also a highly sophisticated scholarly edition. It is particularly rich in bibliography, with an extensive listing of virtually all the secondary literature on Columban and his times.' Terrence Kardong, American Benedictine Review 'This book is a timely and meaningful contribution to the scholarship on Merovingian Gaul. It is important not only for its accessible translation of a large and difficult corpus of works set against a complicated historical and textual background, but also for its clear synthesis of current scholarship. Finally, it elegantly succeeds in navigating the Irish vs. Frankish controversy, which seems to have reawakened of late.' Yaniv Fox, Speculum Reviews 'There is a richness to the material which O'Hara and Wood have done us a great service in making more accessible.' Jamie Kreiner, The Medieval Review
There is a richness to the material which O'Hara and Wood have done us a great service in making more accessible.Jamie Kreiner, The Medieval Review
Author Information
Dr Alexander O'Hara is a Research Fellow of the Institut für Mittelalterforschung in the Austrian Academy of Sciences and an Hon. Research Fellow of the School of History, University of St Andrews. Professor Ian Wood is Professor of Early Medieval History in the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. His research interests focus on the history and historiography of the early Middle Ages. Previous publications include Avitus of Vienne: Letters and Selected Prose (TTH, LUP, 2002).
