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The Meditations of Saint Augustine, from the Latin Original. By the Rev. J. Martin, O.S.A. …
by [AUGUSTINE, Saint, attributed author.]
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About This Item
First edition of this rare translation of the pseudo-Augustinian Meditationum Liber, an eleventh-century devotional text very popular in the Middle Ages.
The translator, John Martin, was an Augustinian friar who became a fervent activist within the Society of United Irishmen. His political conversion (and this book) coincided with the outbreak of the rebellion of 1798, in which he took a number of increasingly dangerous commissions from the Dublin United Irish Committee, but he has been largely neglected in the historiography of the rebellion; his stance suited neither loyalists nor rebel apologists, and he remains an enigmatic figure.
Daire Keogh, '"The most dangerous villain in society"; Fr. John Martin's Mission to the United Irishmen of Wicklow in 1798', Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 7, (1992), pp. 115-135.
ESTC records copies at the British Library, National Library of Ireland, and Illinois only.
The translator, John Martin, was an Augustinian friar who became a fervent activist within the Society of United Irishmen. His political conversion (and this book) coincided with the outbreak of the rebellion of 1798, in which he took a number of increasingly dangerous commissions from the Dublin United Irish Committee, but he has been largely neglected in the historiography of the rebellion; his stance suited neither loyalists nor rebel apologists, and he remains an enigmatic figure.
Daire Keogh, '"The most dangerous villain in society"; Fr. John Martin's Mission to the United Irishmen of Wicklow in 1798', Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 7, (1992), pp. 115-135.
ESTC records copies at the British Library, National Library of Ireland, and Illinois only.
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- Bookseller
- Bernard Quaritch Ltd
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E2806
- Title
- The Meditations of Saint Augustine, from the Latin Original. By the Rev. J. Martin, O.S.A. …
- Author
- [AUGUSTINE, Saint, attributed author.]
- Format/Binding
- 12mo, pp. [12], 183, [9, index]; lightly foxed but a good copy in contemporary sheep, spine with remains of paper label; boards
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for the Author, by H. Fitzpatrick …
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1798
- Pages
- pp. [12], 183, [9, index]
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Augustine, Devotion, Ireland
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