Women in a Celtic Church
Ireland 450-1150
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 April 2002
- ISBN 9780198208235
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages340 pages
- Size 243x164x23 mm
- Weight 633 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 maps and 2 figures 0
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Short description:
This work is a ground-breaking study of the varieties of holy life available to, and pursued by, early medieval Irish women. The author explores a wide range of source material from legal texts, saints' lives, litanies, penitentials, canons, and poetry in order to illuminate female religious life and changes in attitudes towards it over time.
MoreLong description:
A history of women in the early Irish church has never before been written, despite perennial interest in the early Christianity of Celtic areas, and indeed the increasing interest in gender and spirituality generally. This book covers the development of women's religious professions in the primitive church in St Patrick's era and the development of large women's monasteries such as Kildare, Clonbroney, Cloonburren, and Killeedy. It traces its subject through the heyday of the seventh century, through the Viking era, and the Culdee reforms, to the era of the Europeanization of the twelfth century. The place of women and their establishments is considered against the wider Irish background and compared with female religiosity elsewhere in early medieval Europe. The author demonstrates that while Ireland was distinct it was still very much part of the wider world of Western Christendom, and it must be appreciated as such.
Grounded in the primary material of the period the book places in the foreground many largely unknown Irish texts in order to bring them to the attention of scholars in related fields. Throughout the study the author notes widespread ideas about Celtic women, pagan priestesses, and Saint Brigit, considering how these perceptions came about in light of the texts and historiographical traditions of the previous centuries.
A very impressive study of women in the Irish church from 450 to 1150 AD ... This book is fascinating.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Irish Holy Woman and Her Inquisitors
Conversion Period: The Fifth and Sixth Centuries
Religious Women in the Conversion Period c. AD 400-600
Chrisitan Virgins and their Churches in the Sixth Centuries: The View from the Seventh
The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Centuries
Introduction
Nuns in the Large Women's Monasteries
Nuns in Other Settings
Women of God in the Seventh to Ninth Centuries
Abbesses and other High-Ranking Holy Women
The Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Centuries
Introduction
Nuns, Abbesses, Saints, and their Monasteries
Proximities and Boundaries: Sexual Anxiety and the Monastery
The Virgin Consort in Hagiography
'Generous Eve' and the Echoes of Reform
Abbreviations
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