An Irish precursor of Dante : $b a study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the eighth-century Irish saint Adamnán, with translation of the Irish text — Dante Alighieri — John Shaqi
An Irish precursor of Dante : $b 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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Iona, monastery founded by St. Colm Cille, 8;
abbots of, 8;
opposition to Adamnán’s reform, 10;
apocryphal disputes with Adamnán, 22.
Ireland: Church in seventh century, 4;
three orders of saints, 4;
asceticism, 24;
tribal organisation, 7, 15;
political activity, 6;
learning in, 5, 115;
connections with Gaul, 113;
with the East, 113-15;
intercourse with Greeks, 115;
Oriental type of monasticism, 114;
pilgrimages to Egypt, 114;
missionary activity, 5;
Irish scholars abroad, 5, 115;
Irish monastic foundations in foreign countries, 5, 166, 233 _n._
---- Social ranks and classes, 116 _n._;
position of women, 18 _sqq._
---- Political constitution, 14, 116 _n._;
the Mórdáil, 18.
---- The literary class, 116-18;
the annals, authority of, 16, 17.
---- Romantic literature: classification of stories, 118-19;
pagan elements, 119, 120;
ethical ideas, 144, 145, 147-8;
tolerance of clergy, 119, 209 _n._;
clerical interpolations, 145-9;
transition to Christianity, 146-7, 157, 164-5;
possible borrowings from the Norse, 131, 152;
from classics, 151-2;
loss of natural beauty, 247;
of music, 124, 139, 141, 159, 181, 189, 191, 247.
---- Interrupted development of Irish literature and modern revival, 247.
_Isaiah, Vision of_, 98.
Ishtâr, 69, 97.
Isis, cult of, in Græco-Roman world, 89 _n._;
treatise on Isis and Osiris, 88.
Island Paradise, 123, 151, 153-4, 157, 159, 160, 162-3, 184 _n._, 210.
Israel, see ‘Jews.’
Jews, contact with Oriental religions during captivity, 68, 82;
Persian mythology, 70;
Hellenic influences, 68, 86-7;
colonies in Asia and Alexandria, 86;
Egyptian ideas, 87-9;
Rabbinical legends, 84;
spiritism, 81;
eschatology, 89, 90, 191;
Purgatorial theories, 90;
influence on Christian conception of Paradise, 109.
Joannes Scotus Erigena, 6 _n._, 115.
John of Thessalonica, 107.
Jubinal, _La Légende latine de St. Brendaines_, 207 _n._
Jude, St., Epistle of, cited, 71, 94, 99.
Judgment: of individual on demise, 37, 38, 71, 106, 195;
deferred till Last Judgment, 39, 40, 41, 191;
Last, 31, 47, 72 _n._, 96;
impatience of damned for, 43;
intensification of bliss and woe after, 202.
Karshipta, mystical bird of Avesta, 72, 73, 81, 85, 189.
Labraid Luathlam-ar-Claideb, 128.
Lagny, monastery, founded by St. Fursa, 167.
Laisrén, St., Vision of, 169 _sqq._
Lanigan cited, 7 _n._
Lawrence, ed. of _Book of Enoch_, 95 _n._
Leanamhán Sidhe stories, 127, 136.
Lebor Brec, 27.
Lebor na g-Cert, 117 _n._
Lebor na h-Udri, 27, 122 _n._, 127 _n._
Lenormant, _Origines de l’Histoire_, cited, 69 _n._, 82.
Lerins, monastery of, 113.
Leuke, 50, 143.
_Lex innocentium_, 22.
_Lex talionis_, in punishments of Otherworld, 63, 105, 171, 231, 238.
Lia Fáil, 134, 187.
Liban, 128.