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Bracken, Damian, “Immortality and capital punishment: patristic concepts in Irish law”, Peritia 9 (1995): 167–186.

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Bracken (Damian)

Article

“Immortality and capital punishment: patristic concepts in Irish law”

Periodical

Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland 9 (1995)

Peritia 9 (1995).

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9

Pages

167–186

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An early legal poem is the centre-piece in the pseudo-historical introduction to the Senchas Már. It is the work of a cleric and is described as a skilful justification of capital punishment in a christian context. The poet uses the complex theology of the Fall and Redemption in a creative way and his work can only be interpreted in the context of Hiberno-Latin and patristic literature. The poem is not symptomatic of christian influence on the Laws in a merely unfocused sense. Rather it is the product of the same ecclesiastical milieux that produced Hiberno-Latin literature itself.

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early Irish law

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fall of man

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