Who is Patrick? – Answers from the Saint Patrick's Confessio HyperStack
Franz Fischer
University of Cologne
Cologne Center for eHumanities
Universitatsstr. 22, D-50923 Koln
franz.fischer@uni-koeln.de
Abstract
Not everyone realizes that there are two Latin works, still surviving, that can definitely be attributed to Saint Patrick’s own authorship.
On 14th September 2011 the Royal Irish Academy published his writings in a freely accessible form on line, both in the original Latin and in a variety of modern languages (including Irish). Designed to be of interest to the general public as well as to academic researchers, the Saint Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack includes such features as digital images of the medieval manuscripts involved, a specially commissioned historical reconstruction that evocatively describes life in pre-Viking Ireland, articles, audio presentations, and some ten thousand internal and external digital links that make it truly a resource to be explored.
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