Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- I.3 The Earliest Charters
- I.4 Theodore of Canterbury
- I.5 Descriptions of the Holy Land
- I.6 Aldhelm
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- Eleventh Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
I.5 - Descriptions of the Holy Land
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- I.3 The Earliest Charters
- I.4 Theodore of Canterbury
- I.5 Descriptions of the Holy Land
- I.6 Aldhelm
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- Eleventh Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
Adomnán had come from Ireland to settle on Iona off the west coast of Scotland where he was abbot for many years. He wrote a biography of St. Columba, and the work excerpted here, namely a book about the Holy Places in and around Jerusalem, for which his source was the account given to him by Arculf who visited him on Iona. Bede wrote a version of this work, and a short passage is included here for the purpose of comparison.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 74 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024