Adomnán of Iona: Theologian, Lawmaker, Peacemaker. Edited by Jonathan M. Wooding with Rodney Aist, Thomas Owen Clancey, and Thomas O’Loughlin
It is often supposed that to see the hand behind the text will be illuminating about the text itself. This is by no means always so: to appreciate what has been written, whether verse, prose, or drama, etc., is to take it for what it is now; what it was to the author is in a sense not at that moment...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 751-753 |
| Review of: | Adomnán of Iona (Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2010) (Ward, Benedicta)
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| Summary: | It is often supposed that to see the hand behind the text will be illuminating about the text itself. This is by no means always so: to appreciate what has been written, whether verse, prose, or drama, etc., is to take it for what it is now; what it was to the author is in a sense not at that moment relevant. Sometimes to be presented with social and biographical background is illuminating but sometimes it detracts from enjoyment and blocks comprehension. Such an approach, a kind of gossip about a hidden person, is not what is offered in this fine book of essays mainly collected from a conference on Iona in 2004, in celebration of Adomnán’s death there in 704. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls074 |