Adomnan's Life of Columba

(Latin;English)
Hardback
Edition: New ed
552 pages
Language: Latin
Published: 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198222874

Columba's abbey on Iona had a marked effect on early Christianity. His "Life" was written in about 700, a century after his death, by Adomnan, ninth abbot of Iona. This revision of the 1961 edition contains new historical notes and an introduction rewrit