St Samson of Dol and the Earliest History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales: Studies in Celtic History

Lynette Olson

Introduction: 'Getting Somewhere' with the First Life of St Samson of Dol - Lynette Olson A Family and its Saint in the Vita prima Samsonis - Richard Sowerby La circulation de l'information dans la Vie ancienne de s. Samson de Dol et la question de sa datation - Joseph-Claude Poulin The Hare and the Tortoise? Vita Prima Sancti Samsonis, Vita Paterni and Merovingian Hagiography - Caroline Brett Columbanus, the Britons and the Merovingian Church - Ian Nicholas Wood Apostolic Authority and Celtic Liturgies: from the Vita Samsonis to the Ratio de cursus - Constant J Mews The Representation of Early British Monasticism and Peregrinatio in Vita Prima S. Samsonis - Jonathan M Wooding Present and yet Absent: the Cult of St Samson of Dol in Wales - Karen Jankulak Bibliography