Thomas O’loughlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 444967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas O’loughlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | O’loughlin |
| SIGNATURE | O’LOUGHLIN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6333-3991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Adomnán’s “Lex Innocentium” and the Laws of War
Celebrating Synodality: Synodality as a Fundamental Aspect of Christian Liturgy
A synodal church makes assumptions about our basic ecclesial experience which takes place when we assemble liturgically, especially when we act eucharistically. The basic assumption is that we are a genuine human community knowing and relating to one another as brothers and sisters in baptism. Only real communities can authentically image the church's nature. This is a ‘bottom – up’ activity. If we wish this, then we must rediscover our liturgy a…
Rites of Passage’ and the Writing of Church History: Reflections upon our Craft in the Aftermath of van Gennep
Van Gennep's work on rites of passage can be viewed as part of the rise of anthropology in the period prior to the First World War, and has been very influential conceptually and on the practice of churches ever since. This article examines how his own historical work, taking baptism as an example of a rite of passage, compares with the practice of church history at the time. It then seeks to assess van Gennep's assumptions in comparison with the…
Thomas Finan: Collected writings , ed. D. Vincent Twomey
Liturgy, Inculturation and the reception of Sacrosanctum concilium 37–40: An on-going project for those who preside
We are only now, after more than half a century, uncovering the real significance of what the Second Vatican Council means for the Church. The time lapse in reception has many factors not least that distinctive shifts in emphasis take far longer be appreciated in a real way that practical changes which, for good or ill, can be accomplished by fiat . So that the reception, fast or slow, of the Council is not a uniform process. One area where very …
Paula Gooder and Michael Perham, Echoing the Word: The Bible in the Eucharist
Map Awareness in the Mid-Seventh Century: Jonas’ Vita Columbani
Imago MundiPrize The fourth biennial Prize will be awarded in 2011 to honour the Imago Mundi article judged to have made the most significant contribution to the discipline. The judges will consider articles published in the 2009 and 2010 issues (volumes 61 and 62). The winner will receive $1000 and will automatically qualify for a J. B. Harley Travel Award to the next International Conference on the History of Cartography (Moscow, Russia, 2011).…
Insular Inscriptions By David Howlett
Map and Text: A Mid Ninth‐Century Map for the Book of Joshua
This article draws attention to a map of Palestine found in one ninth‐century manuscript of an eighth‐century Latin commentary, probably of Irish origin, on the Christian Bible. The map is a central element in the commentary's examination of the Book of Joshua. It shows Canaan divided into tribal territories and includes some of the cities mentioned in that text. The map was used as an exegetical tool to impose through its graphic clarity the imp…
Stalmans, Saints d'Irlande
Early Medieval Introductions to the Holy Book: Adjuncts or Hermeneutic
In a famous passage on the training of those who wished to become wise in sacred letters, in effect, learned readers of the Christian scriptures, Cassiodorus wrote: The first thing a student should do, having read [my] book is to go back and study carefully the works of those ( introductores ) who have written introductions to the sacred scriptures. We have found the following [useful]: Tyconius the Donatist; St Augustine’s De doctrina Christiana…
Palestine in the Aftermath of the Arab Conquest: The Earliest Latin Account
Written, probably, in the early 680s on lona, Adomnán’s De locis sanctis has excited interest, and been used as a quarry for facts about the Holy Land, ever since. It purports to report the pilgrim experiences of a ‘bishop of the Gaulish race’ ( prooemium , I), Arculf, who, when later on Iona, told of what he had seen in Palestine, Alexandria, and Constantinople. Realising his ‘scoop’, Adomnán set the details down in a permanent record. Within tw…
Teachers and Code-Breakers: The Latin Genesis Tradition, 430-800
Ecotheology and Eschatology
Contemporary Catholic theology has deliberately played shy of eschatological imagery, and when it has addressed it—usually in the poetry of the liturgy—has done so, for the most part, using banquet imagery for our final destination. One exception to this is in the Eucharistic Preface for the last Sunday of the Ordinary Time of the year when the End is the theme running through the liturgy: the celebration of Christ as King of the Universe. It run…
An early thirteenth‐century map in Dublin: A window into the world of Giraldus Cambrensis
An early thirteenth‐century manuscript (Dublin, N.L.I. 700) of two works of Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales, c.1146‐c.l223) also contains a map of Europe, of which no close parallels are known. While it is integral to the manuscript, it has no obvious relationship with either of the texts. The outlines of the map were derived from earlier and contemporary world maps and its principal contents from itineraries; its core is an itinerary from B…
Conversing with Angels and Ancients
Adomnán the Illustrious
David Knowles, the Evolution of Medieval Thought
The ‘baptism of tears’ in early Anglo-Saxon sources
In an article published in 1986 Michael Lapidge 1 noted the occurrence of the term Umbrensium (from Humbrenses/Umbrenses ) in both the U-text of Theodore's Indicia 2 and the anonymous, eighth-century Whitby Vita S. Gregorii . 3 This is by no means the only point of contact between the two works. Perhaps the most memorable episode in the Vita S. Gregorii is that of Gregory's weeping for the soul of Trajan, his tears having the effect of baptizing …
An early thirteenth‐century map in Dublin: A window into the world of Giraldus Cambrensis
An early thirteenth‐century manuscript (Dublin, N.L.I. 700) of two works of Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales, c.1146‐c.l223) also contains a map of Europe, of which no close parallels are known. While it is integral to the manuscript, it has no obvious relationship with either of the texts. The outlines of the map were derived from earlier and contemporary world maps and its principal contents from itineraries; its core is an itinerary from B…
Map and Text: A Mid Ninth‐Century Map for the Book of Joshua
This article draws attention to a map of Palestine found in one ninth‐century manuscript of an eighth‐century Latin commentary, probably of Irish origin, on the Christian Bible. The map is a central element in the commentary's examination of the Book of Joshua. It shows Canaan divided into tribal territories and includes some of the cities mentioned in that text. The map was used as an exegetical tool to impose through its graphic clarity the imp…
The ‘baptism of tears’ in early Anglo-Saxon sources
In an article published in 1986 Michael Lapidge 1 noted the occurrence of the term Umbrensium (from Humbrenses/Umbrenses ) in both the U-text of Theodore's Indicia 2 and the anonymous, eighth-century Whitby Vita S. Gregorii . 3 This is by no means the only point of contact between the two works. Perhaps the most memorable episode in the Vita S. Gregorii is that of Gregory's weeping for the soul of Trajan, his tears having the effect of baptizing …
David Knowles, the Evolution of Medieval Thought
Adomnán the Illustrious
Conversing with Angels and Ancients
Teachers and Code-Breakers: The Latin Genesis Tradition, 430-800
Ecotheology and Eschatology
Contemporary Catholic theology has deliberately played shy of eschatological imagery, and when it has addressed it—usually in the poetry of the liturgy—has done so, for the most part, using banquet imagery for our final destination. One exception to this is in the Eucharistic Preface for the last Sunday of the Ordinary Time of the year when the End is the theme running through the liturgy: the celebration of Christ as King of the Universe. It run…
An early thirteenth‐century map in Dublin: A window into the world of Giraldus Cambrensis
An early thirteenth‐century manuscript (Dublin, N.L.I. 700) of two works of Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales, c.1146‐c.l223) also contains a map of Europe, of which no close parallels are known. While it is integral to the manuscript, it has no obvious relationship with either of the texts. The outlines of the map were derived from earlier and contemporary world maps and its principal contents from itineraries; its core is an itinerary from B…
Palestine in the Aftermath of the Arab Conquest: The Earliest Latin Account
Written, probably, in the early 680s on lona, Adomnán’s De locis sanctis has excited interest, and been used as a quarry for facts about the Holy Land, ever since. It purports to report the pilgrim experiences of a ‘bishop of the Gaulish race’ ( prooemium , I), Arculf, who, when later on Iona, told of what he had seen in Palestine, Alexandria, and Constantinople. Realising his ‘scoop’, Adomnán set the details down in a permanent record. Within tw…
Early Medieval Introductions to the Holy Book: Adjuncts or Hermeneutic
In a famous passage on the training of those who wished to become wise in sacred letters, in effect, learned readers of the Christian scriptures, Cassiodorus wrote: The first thing a student should do, having read [my] book is to go back and study carefully the works of those ( introductores ) who have written introductions to the sacred scriptures. We have found the following [useful]: Tyconius the Donatist; St Augustine’s De doctrina Christiana…
Map and Text: A Mid Ninth‐Century Map for the Book of Joshua
This article draws attention to a map of Palestine found in one ninth‐century manuscript of an eighth‐century Latin commentary, probably of Irish origin, on the Christian Bible. The map is a central element in the commentary's examination of the Book of Joshua. It shows Canaan divided into tribal territories and includes some of the cities mentioned in that text. The map was used as an exegetical tool to impose through its graphic clarity the imp…
Stalmans, Saints d'Irlande
Insular Inscriptions By David Howlett
Map Awareness in the Mid-Seventh Century: Jonas’ Vita Columbani
Imago MundiPrize The fourth biennial Prize will be awarded in 2011 to honour the Imago Mundi article judged to have made the most significant contribution to the discipline. The judges will consider articles published in the 2009 and 2010 issues (volumes 61 and 62). The winner will receive $1000 and will automatically qualify for a J. B. Harley Travel Award to the next International Conference on the History of Cartography (Moscow, Russia, 2011).…
Paula Gooder and Michael Perham, Echoing the Word: The Bible in the Eucharist
Thomas Finan: Collected writings , ed. D. Vincent Twomey
Liturgy, Inculturation and the reception of Sacrosanctum concilium 37–40: An on-going project for those who preside
We are only now, after more than half a century, uncovering the real significance of what the Second Vatican Council means for the Church. The time lapse in reception has many factors not least that distinctive shifts in emphasis take far longer be appreciated in a real way that practical changes which, for good or ill, can be accomplished by fiat . So that the reception, fast or slow, of the Council is not a uniform process. One area where very …
Celebrating Synodality: Synodality as a Fundamental Aspect of Christian Liturgy
A synodal church makes assumptions about our basic ecclesial experience which takes place when we assemble liturgically, especially when we act eucharistically. The basic assumption is that we are a genuine human community knowing and relating to one another as brothers and sisters in baptism. Only real communities can authentically image the church's nature. This is a ‘bottom – up’ activity. If we wish this, then we must rediscover our liturgy a…
Rites of Passage’ and the Writing of Church History: Reflections upon our Craft in the Aftermath of van Gennep
Van Gennep's work on rites of passage can be viewed as part of the rise of anthropology in the period prior to the First World War, and has been very influential conceptually and on the practice of churches ever since. This article examines how his own historical work, taking baptism as an example of a rite of passage, compares with the practice of church history at the time. It then seeks to assess van Gennep's assumptions in comparison with the…
Adomnán’s “Lex Innocentium” and the Laws of War
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