Patrick McAlary
Biographic Data
| ID | 5716367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick McAlary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | McAlary |
| SIGNATURE | MCALARY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7521-8715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Contention after Mag Léne
Cummian’s letter De controversia paschali recounts the lead up to, and subsequent fallout from, a gathering of ecclesiasts who met to deliberate on the dating of Easter at an unidentified place called Mag Léne. While initially united in the decision to embrace the system of Easter prevalent in Rome, this unity was subsequently sundered by an individual dubbed a paries dealbatus (‘whited wall’) by Cummian. It will be argued in what follows that th…
Early mechanisms of abbatial succession
Comments about succession to the Iona abbacy rarely go beyond the observation that most of the early abbots – but not all – belonged to the Cenél Conaill, the kindred of Iona’s founder, Saint Columba. This point privileges the role of eligibility criteria in the succession process at the expense of agency. This paper concerns itself with the specific mechanism that mediated the Iona abbacy: the central question is not ‘who’ could succeed, but rat…
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Contention after Mag Léne
Cummian’s letter De controversia paschali recounts the lead up to, and subsequent fallout from, a gathering of ecclesiasts who met to deliberate on the dating of Easter at an unidentified place called Mag Léne. While initially united in the decision to embrace the system of Easter prevalent in Rome, this unity was subsequently sundered by an individual dubbed a paries dealbatus (‘whited wall’) by Cummian. It will be argued in what follows that th…
Early mechanisms of abbatial succession
Comments about succession to the Iona abbacy rarely go beyond the observation that most of the early abbots – but not all – belonged to the Cenél Conaill, the kindred of Iona’s founder, Saint Columba. This point privileges the role of eligibility criteria in the succession process at the expense of agency. This paper concerns itself with the specific mechanism that mediated the Iona abbacy: the central question is not ‘who’ could succeed, but rat…
Genealogy (2 works) · History (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Byzantine Studies and History (1 work) · Chronology (1 work) · Ecological succession (1 work) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (1 work)