The Celtic Christianity e-Library
List of Available Texts:
Alphabetical Catalogue
Reading for the Desert in the Ocean Module
Reading for the Celtic Hagiography Module
Reading for the Monastic Island of Iona Module
Recommended Digital Resource Sites
Module Page: MACC0420:The Desert in the Ocean
Eremitical Spirituality in the Celtic Churches
The following are sources which are listed in reading pack for the above course. For further texts see Alphabetical Catalogue
The Desert Fathers
De opere monachorum On the Work of Monks by St Augustine of Hippo — Trans Rev. H. Browne, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series.
Vita Pauli The Life of Paul of Thebes the First Hermit, by Jerome — Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series.
Vita Antonii The Life of Antony by Athanasius — Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series.
The Conferencesof John Cassian — This translation is from the Benedictine site, trans. Edgar Gisbon.
Latin Sources
Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Gildas, Fragmenta (Letter to Finnian) Translation (original language: Latin)—External Site
Gildas, Penitential Translation (original language: Latin)—External Site
Vita Columbani The Life of St Columbanus by Jonas of Bobbio (c. 640) — Translation by D. C. Munro, on Paul Halsall's excellent Medieval Sourcebook site.
Vita Columbae The Life of St Columba by Adomnán of Iona (†704) — Translation by William Reeves, on Paul Halsall's excellent Medieval Sourcebook site, courtesy of the St Columba site at Utah.
Nauigatio sancti Brendani abbatis The Voyage of St Brendan
Vita Samsonis The Life of St Samson of Dol — Translated by Thomas Taylor from the edition of R. Fawtier in 1925.
Irish Sources
Betha Bréannain from the Book of Lismore Text Translation
Dialogue of Cormac with Columcille — Translated by Eugene O’Curry
Columcille sang, when Cormac came to him from his own Country – Translated by Eugene O’Curry
Immram Brain The Voyage of Bran — Translated by Kuno Meyer
Immram curaig Maíle Dúin The Voyage of Máel Dúin's Curragh Prose Version — Translated by Whitely Stokes
Immram Snédgusa ocus Meic Riagla The Voyage of Snédgus and Mac RiaglaPoetic Version — Translated by Donncha Ó Aodha
Immram Snédgusa ocus Meic Riagla The Voyage of Snédgus and Mac RiaglaProse Version — Translated by Whitley Stokes.
Immram Ua Corra The Voyage of the Uí Chorra — Translated by Whitley Stokes.
Litany of the Pilgrim Saints – Translated by Charles Plummer.
Old English Sources
The Seafarer Text Translation — This translation is a poetic version by Ezra Pound, which does not always correspond closely to the original.
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