The Irish in early medieval Europe : identity, culture and religion

The Irish in early medieval Europe : identity, culture and religion Roy Flechner, Sven Meeder. - Palgrave 2016 - 272 p. ; 21 cm.

Introduction; Roy Flechner and Sven Meeder
1. Travel, transport and communication to and from Ireland, c.400-1100; Christopher Loveluck and Aidan O'Sullivan
2. Exiles from the edge? The Irish contexts of peregrinatio; Elva Johnston
3. The political context of Irish monasticism in seventh-century Francia; Yaniv Fox

4. Columbanian monastic rules: dissent and experiment; Albrecht Diem

5. Columbanian monasticism: a contested concept; Ian Wood
6. Columbanus and the Easter controversy: theological, social and political contexts; Caitlin Corning
7. Irish biblical exegesis; Mark Stansbury
8. The Irish contribution to the penitential tradition; Rob Meens
9. The liturgy of the Irish in Europe; Yitzhak Hen
10. Computus as scientific thought in Ireland and the early medieval West; Immo Warntjes
11. The Irish and Carolingian learning; Sven Meeder
12. Controversies and ethnic tensions; Roy Flechner and Sven Meeder
13. The Irish and their books; Elizabeth Duncan
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
Index



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Europe/Ireland
Europe/Western
British & Irish history
European history

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