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The Brendan legend : texts and versions /

"The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions" deals with the vast textual tradition relating to the Irish Saint Brendan, known as 'The Navigator'. Stories about Brendan have been popular in the whole of Western Europe, from the seventh to the twentieth century. The themes of the book...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Burgess, Glyn S. (Glyn Sheridan), Strijbosch, Clara, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Series:Northern world ; v. 24.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Searching for a Versatile Saint : Introduction
  • The Use of Animals in Benedeit's Version of the Brendan Legend
  • Brendan's European Tour : The Middle Irish Poem Mochen, Mochen, A Brenaind and the Changing Nature of Pilgrimage in the Eleventh Century
  • Oriental Eremitical Motifs in the Navigatio Sancti Brendani
  • The Little Man on a Leaf and the Two Concepts of the Dutch/German Reise
  • The Island of the Birds in the Navigatio Sancti Brendani
  • The Irish Life of Saint Brendan : Textual History, Structure, and Date
  • Navigatio Sancti Brendani . Some Possible Connections with Liturgical, Apocryphal, and Irish Tradition
  • The Hispanic Version of the Navigatio Sancti Brendani : Tradition or Form of Reception of a Text?
  • Brendan and Moses
  • The Abbot and the Monastic Community in the Gaelic Churches, 550 to 800
  • Between Angel and Beast : Brendan, Herzog Ernst, and the World of the Twelfth Century
  • The Navigatio Sancti Brendani and Two of its Twelfth-Century Palimpsests : The Brendan Poems by Benedict and Walter of Chatillon
  • Ein Hubsch Lieblich Lesen Von Sant Brandon : A Look at the German Prose Versions and their Illustrations
  • Philological Remarks on the So-Called Navigatio S. Brendani.