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Adomnan and the Holy Places - The Perceptions of an Insular Monk on the Locations of the Biblical Drama (Hardcover, New)
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Adomnan and the Holy Places - The Perceptions of an Insular Monk on the Locations of the Biblical Drama (Hardcover, New)
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Adomnan, ninth abbot of Iona, wrote his book, On Holy Places (De
Locis Sanctis), in the closing years of the seventh century. It is
a detailed account of the sites mentioned in the Christian
scriptures, the overall topography, and the shrines that are in
Palestine and Egypt at that time. It is neatly broken into three
parts: Jerusalem, the surrounding areas, and then a few other
places. The whole has a contemporary and lively feel; and the
reader is then not surprised when Adomnan says he got his
information from a Gallic bishop name Arculf. Things then get
interesting for the more one probes, the book the amount of
information that could have been obtained from Arculf keeps
diminishing, while the amount that can be shown to be a reworking
of written sources increases. We then see that Adomnans book is an
attempt to compile a biblical studies manual according to the
demands of Augustine (354-430) - one of which was that there had to
be an empirical witness. Thus, Adomnan wrote the work and employed
Arculf as a literary device. However, he produced the desired
manual which remained in use until the Reformation. As a manual we
can use it to study the nature of scriptural studies in the Latin
world of the time, and perceptions of space, relics, pilgrimage,
and Islam. While a study of how the work was used by others,
transmitted, reworked (for example by the Venerable Bede) brings
unique light onto the theological world of the Carolingians.
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