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An Irish Precursor of Dante A Study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the Eighth-century Irish Saint Adamnán, with Translation of the Irish Text
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An Irish Precursor of Dante
A Study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the Eighth-century Irish Saint Adamnán, with Translation of the Irish Text
By
C. S. Boswell
London
Published by David Nutt
at the Sign of the Phœnix
Long Acre
1908
TO
H. M. H. B.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| PART I | |
| 1. INTRODUCTORY | |
| Dante’s Commedia preceded by a long series of Visions of the Otherworld—The Vision a favourite subject with Irish writers of the Middle Ages—Dante’s originality | 1-4 |
| 2. THE SEER | |
| The Irish Church at the close of the seventh century—Its missionary activity—Irish scholars and clerics on the Continent—The authorities for Adamnán’s life—His birth and parentage—Meaning of his name—Enters the monastery of Iona—Becomes abbot—Missions to Northumbria—Intercourse with the Venerable Bede—The Paschal controversy—Adamnán adopts the Roman usage—His labours in the cause—Wins over Ireland except Iona—His death—His Life of St. Colm Cille—His treatise De Locis Satutis—Miscellaneous and apocryphal writings—His scholarship—Adamnán in the later annals—Anecdote of his student days—The Boruma Tribute—Remitted by Árd Rí Finnachta Fledach—Adamnán’s opposition thereto—Doubtful authenticity of the record—Further dissensions with the Árd Rí—Death of Finnachta—Adamnán’s legislation on behalf of the women of Ireland—Their previous status and liability to military service—The Cáin Adamnáin—Character of Adamnán—The Fis Adamnáin, why associated with his name—MSS. and editions of the Fis Adamnáin | 4-28 |
| 3. TRANSLATION OF THE FIS ADAMNÁIN | |
| 1. Exordium—2. Enumeration of previous revelations of the Otherworld—3. Adamnán’s translation from the body—4-6. The Land of Saints—7-8. The Throne of the Deity—9. The Divine Presence enthroned, and 10. Pictured as a mystic omnipresent face—11. The Celestial City, its seven walls and its floor; 12. Its inhabitants; 13. Its design, as of a Christian Church—14. Limbo of the excluded—15-18. The Soul’s progress through the seven Heavens; 15. Their doors and porters; the first Heaven; 16. The second Heaven, Purgatorial pains; 17. The third and fourth Heavens; 18. The fifth and sixth Heavens—19. The Judgment of the Soul—20. The fate of the damned—21. Hell, a fiery glen—22-23. The Bridge of Doom—24. The half good, half wicked—25-29. Punishments of the wicked described; classification of crimes and punishments—27. The charitable but carnal—29. Fiery wall reserved until after the Last Judgment—30. Description of Hell; impatience of the damned for Judgment; respite on Sundays—31. Adamnán returns to Heaven; is restored to the body, and bidden report what he has seen—32. This the subject of his subsequent preaching; consonant with the doctrine of the Apostles and Saints—33. Enoch, Elias, and the Bird-flocks of Paradise—34. Peroration; L’Envoy—35. Rhapsodical description of Heaven | 28-47 |
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