St. Columba, Silnán, and the 'Male Bovine' (VC 2.17)
| dc.contributor.author | Woods, David | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-04-08T15:50:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-04-08T15:50:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-10 | |
| dc.description.abstract | At Vita Columbae VC 2.17, Adomnán has severely misunderstood a written source which originally described how Columba ordered one party to a dispute, an alleged maleficus ‘evil-doer’ called Silnán, to milk a sick cow in order to settle the dispute by demonstrating that its contaminated milk was the real, hidden cause of the harm which had occasioned the dispute. Adomnán misread a description of a bos maculosus ‘pock-marked bovine’ to refer to a bos masculus ‘male bovine’, and proceeded to misunderstand the story as the description of some form of contest between Columba and a maleficus ‘sorcerer’. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Accepted Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Woods, D., 2008. St. Columba, Silnán, and the 'Male Bovine' (VC 2.17). Journal of Theological Studies, 59(2), pp. 696-702. | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/jts/fln072 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 702 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0022-5185 | |
| dc.identifier.issued | 2 | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Journal of Theological Studies | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 696 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/30 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 59 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en |
| dc.rights | © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. | en |
| dc.subject | Adomnan | en |
| dc.subject | Life of Columba | en |
| dc.subject | hagiography | en |
| dc.subject | Saint Columba | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Columba, Saint, 521-597 | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Church history -- 6th century | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Christian saints -- Ireland -- Biography | en |
| dc.title | St. Columba, Silnán, and the 'Male Bovine' (VC 2.17) | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
