Roy Flechner
Auteur de St. Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint
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Roy Flechner is associate professor of early medieval history at university college Dublin. His books include the Hibernensis (two volumes) and making laws for a Christian society.
Œuvres de Roy Flechner
The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World: Converting the Isles I (Cultural Encounters in… (2016) — Directeur de publication — 5 exemplaires
Transforming Landscapes of Belief in the Early Medieval Insular World and Beyond: Converting the Isles II (Cultural… (2017) — Directeur de publication — 3 exemplaires
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- Œuvres
- 7
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- 38
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- 4.0
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- 1
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- 18
Flechner is also very upfront about some of the methodological difficulties and ambiguities that historians have to confront when writing about a period of history from which vanishingly few documents survive.
A note about audience: I've seen a couple of reviews which complains about Saint Patrick Retold being overly dry and detailed despite the author claiming that it's written for a general audience. What Flechner actually wrote in the introduction is that the book is "not strictly academic and was written with a wider popular appeal in mind [although] some discussions are nevertheless denser in detail in order to satisfy a more specialist readership but also inform nonexperts." (xvi-xvii) That's not telling you to expect a work of pop history, and having read several of the modern scholars whom he cites here I can tell you that Flechner is doing a lot of work here to make the conclusion of studies in palaeography, diplomatics, etc, accessible to a non-specialist audience. "Accessible", however, doesn't mean "turn your brain off when you pick up the book." You will have to work a little as a general reader while reading this book, but I think the rewards are worth it.… (plus d'informations)