De locis sanctis

Adamnan’s narrative of Arculf’s journey, De locis sanctis, came to the attention of the Venerable Bede, who inserted a brief summary of it in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Bede also wrote a separate and longer digest that endured throughout the Middle Ages as a popular guidebook to…

…was also the author of De locis sanctis (“Concerning the Sacred Places”), a narrative of the pilgrimage (c. 680) made to the Holy Land by the Frankish bishop Arculf, who, forced by storms to the west coast of Britain, became Adamnan’s guest. Adamnan is the subject of the Vision of…