Download or read book Old Nubian Miracle of St Mena written by Francis Llewellyn Griffith and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is one of the few surviving works to come out of the Nubian church in its zenith. It gives a comical account of a pilgrim drawn to the church of the Coptic Saint Menas, and the events that transpire along the way as she sojourns the Nile river. It has its parallels in Coptic literature, where it parallels accounts given in the Synaxarium, but its distinctive because of its employment of the medieval Nubian tongue and its orientation towards Upper Egypt.
Download or read book The Old Nubian Miracle of Saint Menas written by Gerald M. Browne and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nicene Canons in the Old Nubian Language written by Francis Llewellyn Griffith and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fragments relating to the Arabic Nicene canons, also known as the Pseudo-Nicene Canons, or the Arabic Nicene Canons in Old Nubian. Most of these canons deal with the early Nubian church as it established its relationship away from both the Roman church, but also the Persian church.
Download or read book Visigothic Chronicle written by John of Biclaro and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The is the first English translation of the Spanish historian, John of Biclaro, who wrote about the various sovereign poweres who ruled in Spain during the 6th century. Among those mentioned as the kings at the Visigothic court, which was in upheaval because of the the Arian heresy. During this century, the political state would shift, leading to the conversion of the nation to Catholicism.
Download or read book Apology to Gunthamund King of Vandals written by Blossius Aemilius Dracontius and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blossius Aemilius Dracontius offers a legal apology via his own prose for his religious dispute the Arian king of the Vandals. This texts offers a rare insight into late Roman North African from the eyes of a common resident of Carthage. Little is known of the fate of Dracontius. However, he is known to have been released or escaped for the Vandal jail and made his way to freedom in Northern Italy.
Download or read book The Life of King Sigebert II written by Sigebert of Gembloux and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the Frankish king Sigebert II is usually regarded as a work of Imperial propaganda by the later French friar, Sigebert of Gembloux. It does grant some of the remaining folk memory of the interactions of the old Merovingian, but is largely re-imagined based upon the rise of the Carolingians. It is a suitable work of hagiography regarding his life, as well as his reign over Austrasia and Burgundy. It his brevity and age that are long remembered, as he only ruled over his nations for a period of a few months in 613 AD.
Download or read book Two Letters from Byzantine Africa written by Licinianus of Carthage and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Licinianus, one of the last bishops of Byzantine Africa offers his pastoral advise to his peer, and African deacon, as well as to Pope Gregory I in Rome. Much of his interest appears to be in discussing the nature of the soul, philosophical concerning relating to the material world, as well episcopal issues such as ordination.
Download or read book A Song of Aethelwolf written by Aethelwolf of Lindsfarne and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A song of Aethelwolf is a 9th century poem composed by one of the friars of the abbey on the island of Lindisfarne. It recounts the sentinel figures of the era as well as some of the personalities present on that island monastery itself.
Download or read book Laws of the Monastery and the Church written by Theuderic III, King of Franks and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What follows here is a collection of edicts and diplomas issued by the Frankish king, grant the parameters of authority to the local monasteries, and offering the protection of the church in these bishopric under the authority of the Frankish crown forever. These edicts would make up the basis for French welfare programs and charitable gives in France for the next thousand years. Some of the edicts noted here are still in effect to this day to the modern monasteries which have maintained their mission since the 7th century.
Download or read book Irish Canons written by Abedoc the Hibernian and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is collection of documents relating to the early Irish church compiled on the holy island of Lindisfarne. The purpose for this compilation is unclear, but it does cite several early Irish synods that we would otherwise know very little about. Moreover, some of these canons would be copied and help form the foundation of the English church in centuries to come.
Download or read book Three Letters from the Companion of the Bulgars written by St. Rupert of Juvavum and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of otherwise anonymous letters regarding the activity of missionary behavior on the Frankish frontier. The identity of 'Bulgars' here is mistaken for the Avars, who were the dominant pagan military force of the 7th century. This is rare insight into the affairs of the Frankish court into their international affairs.
Download or read book Privileges of the Abbot of Canterbury written by St. Augustine of Canterbury and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short work attributed to the founder of the English church, wherein he outlines the limits and powers that Canterbury holds over other bishops, and the special relationship that it enjoys with Rome as the result of its primacy.
Download or read book The Eight Vices written by Eutropius of Valencia and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bishop Eutropius, who lived in late Visigothic Spain, gives his counsel on the subject of the seven deadly sins and ways that anyone can avoid them through conscientious practice. He delineates in this work how these sins are related to one another.
Download or read book Two Letters written by St. Dionysus of Alexandria and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two letters were composed by St. Dionysius as he attempted to curb some of the Christological errors present in the early Alexandrian church. He does not address who is present, but many of the issues that are present relate direct to the question of the divinity of Christ.
Download or read book The Paradise of Heraclides written by Heraclides of Alexandria and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paradise of Heraclides is a a long hagiographical collection composed the the 4th-5th century grammarian. His is addressing his work to Lausus, who may be the same as Lausus the Eunuch, courtier to the Emperor Theodosius II. His work mostly dealings with the works and charity of various Egyptians saints, and their relationship to the establishment of local Coptic churches. While this is a work out of the Alexandrian church, Heraclides appears to have composed this work in Latin, rather than the lingua franca of Greek, or the more parochial Coptic tongue.
Download or read book The Jacobite Arab Synaxarium Volume I Month of Thout written by and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jacobite Arab Synaxarium is a hagiographical volume on the life of the saints of the Jacobite church. This is commonly a collection of the saints that would be venerated in the Arabic or West Syriac churches, traditionally part of the Syriac Orthodox Church. This synaxarium stands apart from other calendars of saints, as it is composed specifically for this church tradition, and has not previously been available in the English language. This first volume consists of the first month of the Coptic calendar- Thout, corresponding roughly to the month of September.
Download or read book The Miracle of Saint Mina written by El-Shafie El-Guzuuli and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Miracle of Saint Mina is one of the core texts in the small corpus of texts written in Old Nubian, a Nilo-Saharan language spoken between the third and fourth cataract of the Nile river until about the fifteenth century, and written in an adaptation of the Coptic script. It is one of the oldest written indigenous African languages. The Miracle of Saint Mina, most probably written around 1000 A.D., is a classical miracle story featuring one of the most well-known Egyptian saints. This publication features a translation of the text into one of the remaining modern Nubian languages, Dongolawi-Andaandi, by El-Shafie El-Guzuuli, thus establishing for the first time a link between the Old Nubian literary heritage and the contemporary colloquial language. The Old Nubian is also accompanied by a revised translation to English and a grammatical analysis"--Publisher's website.
