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Ritari, Katja, Pilgrimage to heaven: eschatology and monastic spirituality in early medieval Ireland, Studia Traditionis Theologiae, 23, Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. XI + 223 pp.

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Pilgrimage to heaven: eschatology and monastic spirituality in early medieval Ireland
Place
Turnhout
Publisher
Brepols
Year
2016
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Number of pages
XI+223
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This book focuses on the expectation of the Judgment and the afterlife in early medieval Irish monastic spirituality. It has been claimed that in the Early Middle Ages, Christianity became for the first time a truly otherworldly religion and in monastic spirituality this otherworldly perspective gained an especially prominent role. In this book, Dr Ritari explores the role of this eschatological expectation in various sources, including hagiography produced by the monastic familia of St Columba, the sermons of St Columbanus, the Navigatio sancti Brendani portraying St Brendan’s sea voyages, and the vision attributed to St Adomnán about Heaven and Hell. One recurrent image used by the Irish authors to portray the Christian path to Heaven is the image of peregrinatio, a life-long pilgrimage. Viewing human life in this perspective inevitably influenced the human relationship with the world making the monastic into a pilgrim who is not supposed to get attached to anything encountered on the way but to keep constantly in mind the end of the journey.
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Subjects and topics
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medieval Ireland
Keywords
eschatalogy
[1] “Introduction”
1.a. Monastic life and death; 1.b. Approaching monastic spirituality.
[2] “Heavenly citizens on earth: the Irish lives of Saints Adomnán and Columba”
2.a. Irish hagiography and holiness; 2.b. The prudent saint in Betha Adamnáin; 2.c. Monastery as holy ground in Betha Coluim Cille; 2.d. Saints as heavenly people.
AdomnánAdomnán
(fl. c.628–704)
Adomnán mac Rónáin was abbot of Iona (r. 679–704) and author of the Latin Life of St Columba and an account of the holy places of the Near East (De locis sanctis). He is credited with the proclamation of the Lex innocentium or Cáin Adomnáin at the Synod of Birr.
See more Colum CilleColum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
Colum Cille;Columba
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).
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[3] “Monastic life as pilgrimage: the sermons of St Columbanus”
3.a. Pilgrimage as spiritual exile; 3.b. ‘Pilgrims in the world’: the monk’s relationship with the world in the sermons of Columbanus; 3.c. The pilgrimage of life.
ColumbanusColumbanus
(fl. c.550–d. 615)
Irish peregrinus, scholar, abbot and monastic founder known chiefly for his activities in the kingdoms of Merovingian Gaul and Lombard Italy. His foundations included Luxeuil and Bobbio.
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[4] “Monks out on the sea in search of heaven: Navigatio sancti Brendani”
4.a. The sea as desert; 4.b. The Navigatio sancti Brendani as an allegory of the monastic quest for Heaven; 4.c. The monastic journey.
Brénainn of ClonfertBrénainn of Clonfert
(d. 577)
Brénainn mac Findloga
Brénainn (Brenden; Brendan) mac Findloga, early Connacht saint, patron of Clonfert, and legendary voyager
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[5] “Geography of the otherworld: Fís Adomnáin”
5.a. The end of the voyage; 5.b. Mapping the afterlife in the Fís Adomnáin; 5.c. The destinations of the dead.
[6] “Pilgrimage of life: some conclusions”
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Dennis Groenewegen
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