The dove and the star: enduring ideas from seventh-century Ireland
Marina Smyth
In the cosmology of Augustinus Hibernicus, scriptural data are combined with classical theory four elements as sole components all matter. For him dove at baptism Christ was a semblance fashioned from element air. Similarly, Magi saw star temporarily fire, and he stressed also that Scripture never said guided way East. The fortuna these ideas is followed into high middle ages.
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