Alexander O'Hara
Biographic Data
| ID | 10326659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander O'Hara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Hara |
| SIGNATURE | HARA A O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A lacuna in Irish historiography
This article highlights some of the historiographical trends over the past one hundred years in how the Irish diaspora in early medieval Europe has been studied. The role of the peregrini , the Irish monastic exiles who left Ireland for Britain and continental Europe from the sixth century onwards, has to some extent been marginal and tangential to the historiography of this island. Forms of modern ‘Irophobia’ in some scholarship have also led to…
Stilo Texere Gesta
This chapter deals with Jonas’s hagiography from four perspectives: motivations for writing, sources, language and style, and audience. Hagiography was a way of recording sacred history and thus had a commemorative function, but it also had a programmatic intent in that it was written to provide models and inspiration for those leading religious lives. Jonas was not any different in this regard from hagiographers before him. What was different wa…
Jonas and Biblical Stylization
Biblical stylization is so implicit in hagiographical works that there is the danger that we might overlook its influence without considering how hagiographers used the Bible to communicate and emphasize their ideas. Jonas of Bobbio’s use of the Bible as an implicit source of stylization in his depictions of Brunhild as a second Jezebel or Columbanus as Elijah reveals the influence that the Old Testament (especially the Book of Kings) exerted on …
Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus
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Stilo Texere Gesta
This chapter deals with Jonas’s hagiography from four perspectives: motivations for writing, sources, language and style, and audience. Hagiography was a way of recording sacred history and thus had a commemorative function, but it also had a programmatic intent in that it was written to provide models and inspiration for those leading religious lives. Jonas was not any different in this regard from hagiographers before him. What was different wa…
Jonas and Biblical Stylization
Biblical stylization is so implicit in hagiographical works that there is the danger that we might overlook its influence without considering how hagiographers used the Bible to communicate and emphasize their ideas. Jonas of Bobbio’s use of the Bible as an implicit source of stylization in his depictions of Brunhild as a second Jezebel or Columbanus as Elijah reveals the influence that the Old Testament (especially the Book of Kings) exerted on …
Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus
A lacuna in Irish historiography
This article highlights some of the historiographical trends over the past one hundred years in how the Irish diaspora in early medieval Europe has been studied. The role of the peregrini , the Irish monastic exiles who left Ireland for Britain and continental Europe from the sixth century onwards, has to some extent been marginal and tangential to the historiography of this island. Forms of modern ‘Irophobia’ in some scholarship have also led to…
Classics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (2 works) · Irish (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Medieval Literature and History (2 works)