Gilbert Márkus
Biographic Data
| ID | 5639109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gilbert Márkus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gilbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Márkus |
| SIGNATURE | MARKUS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6252-2216 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
James W. Houlihan, Adomnán's Lex Innocentium and the Laws of War
Changing the Rule? A re-reading of conflict on Iona in 1204
Two events on Iona in the early thirteenth century – a papal bull in 1203 and a raid by Irish churchmen in 1204 – have conventionally been interpreted as signalling that a formerly ‘Celtic’ monastery became Benedictine in 1203. The raid has been seen as an attempt to reverse this change because of the supposed opposition between the two traditions. This article challenges these views, arguing that (1) no inherent conflict existed between Celtic a…
Iona as Jerusalem – Skye as Caesarea
Inventing Odrán
A saint called Odrán appears as part of several other saints’ Lives, often in a role closely connected to his death, and sometimes in a way which made him an alter ego of the principal saint of the Life. Such a death – whether of Odrán or another saint – could establish the sanctity of a site and could also express hierarchies of ecclesiastical authority. The cult of St Odrán on Iona, first attested in the twelfth century, fits this pattern. It i…
Four blessings and a funeral
Adomnán of Iona wrote a Life of Saint Columba, the founder of that monastery, but did not tell the story of Iona's foundation. Instead, the holiness of the monastery and its surrounding landscape, and their connection to the founder, were established by a narrative in the final chapter of Adomnán's work. In it we watch the final days of Columba's life and his movement across the island, blessing it and its inhabitants. The description is simple, …
Iona
Iona
Conceiving a Nation
This new edition in The New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth?s Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly a hundred miles to the north; new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions; and the writing of early medieval history i…
‘I will give you nations as your heritage’ (Psalm 2:8)
Scotland’s first appearance in the historical record comes through its international trading links, and is seen initially through the eyes of those who write about it: traders, and then Roman writers in the context of Roman invasion and imperial administration. This chapter stresses the ambiguities of the experience of Empire among native societies of Scotland, negotiating ‘between fear and desire’. We therefore cannot present this period as a st…
The Kilmichael Glassary Bell-shrine
The Kilmichael Glassary Bell-shrine is one of the treasures of National Museums Scotland. This paper re-assesses the circumstances of its discovery, its context and importance, and its role as a relic of a saint, not Moluaf, as previously suggested but possibly Columba. The wider use of handbells in the early medieval church is also considered. The bell-shrine was found in 1814, on the farm of Torbhlaren, in the parish of Kilmichael Glassary, in …
Iona
Pelagianism and the ‘Common Celtic Church’
A handful of direct references to the existence of Pelagianism in the British church in the fifth century, another reference to Pelagianism in the Irish church in the seventh, and the use of Pelagius' works (one work in particular, often cited under his own name by Irish writers) have all raised the suspicion that from the fifth century on there may have been a distinctive British and Irish theological tradition, one of whose characteristics was …
Pelagianism and the ‘Common Celtic Church’
A handful of direct references to the existence of Pelagianism in the British church in the fifth century, another reference to Pelagianism in the Irish church in the seventh, and the use of Pelagius' works (one work in particular, often cited under his own name by Irish writers) have all raised the suspicion that from the fifth century on there may have been a distinctive British and Irish theological tradition, one of whose characteristics was …
Pelagianism and the ‘Common Celtic Church’
A handful of direct references to the existence of Pelagianism in the British church in the fifth century, another reference to Pelagianism in the Irish church in the seventh, and the use of Pelagius' works (one work in particular, often cited under his own name by Irish writers) have all raised the suspicion that from the fifth century on there may have been a distinctive British and Irish theological tradition, one of whose characteristics was …
Iona
The Kilmichael Glassary Bell-shrine
The Kilmichael Glassary Bell-shrine is one of the treasures of National Museums Scotland. This paper re-assesses the circumstances of its discovery, its context and importance, and its role as a relic of a saint, not Moluaf, as previously suggested but possibly Columba. The wider use of handbells in the early medieval church is also considered. The bell-shrine was found in 1814, on the farm of Torbhlaren, in the parish of Kilmichael Glassary, in …
Conceiving a Nation
This new edition in The New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth?s Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly a hundred miles to the north; new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions; and the writing of early medieval history i…
‘I will give you nations as your heritage’ (Psalm 2:8)
Scotland’s first appearance in the historical record comes through its international trading links, and is seen initially through the eyes of those who write about it: traders, and then Roman writers in the context of Roman invasion and imperial administration. This chapter stresses the ambiguities of the experience of Empire among native societies of Scotland, negotiating ‘between fear and desire’. We therefore cannot present this period as a st…
Iona
Iona
Four blessings and a funeral
Adomnán of Iona wrote a Life of Saint Columba, the founder of that monastery, but did not tell the story of Iona's foundation. Instead, the holiness of the monastery and its surrounding landscape, and their connection to the founder, were established by a narrative in the final chapter of Adomnán's work. In it we watch the final days of Columba's life and his movement across the island, blessing it and its inhabitants. The description is simple, …
Inventing Odrán
A saint called Odrán appears as part of several other saints’ Lives, often in a role closely connected to his death, and sometimes in a way which made him an alter ego of the principal saint of the Life. Such a death – whether of Odrán or another saint – could establish the sanctity of a site and could also express hierarchies of ecclesiastical authority. The cult of St Odrán on Iona, first attested in the twelfth century, fits this pattern. It i…
Changing the Rule? A re-reading of conflict on Iona in 1204
Two events on Iona in the early thirteenth century – a papal bull in 1203 and a raid by Irish churchmen in 1204 – have conventionally been interpreted as signalling that a formerly ‘Celtic’ monastery became Benedictine in 1203. The raid has been seen as an attempt to reverse this change because of the supposed opposition between the two traditions. This article challenges these views, arguing that (1) no inherent conflict existed between Celtic a…
Iona as Jerusalem – Skye as Caesarea
James W. Houlihan, Adomnán's Lex Innocentium and the Laws of War
Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works)