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Hiberno-Latin Saints' 'Lives' the Seventh Century: Writing Early Ireland
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Hiberno-Latin Saints' 'Lives' the Seventh Century: Writing Early Ireland
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Hiberno-Latin Saints' 'Lives' the Seventh Century: Writing Early Ireland
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The authors of Irish saints’
used the literary form of hagiography (Christian biography), miracle stories, and an elaborate rhetorical style to present the words and actions of their subjects. These
created a narrative of early Irish history that supported the political/ecclesiastical elites by showing that their power derived from the actions of their patron saints.