Women in the Celtic Church Ireland C. 450-1150

Name: Women in the Celtic Church Ireland C. 450-1150
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ISBN: 9780198208235

ISBN-10: 0198208235

ISBN-13: 9780198208235

Edition: 2001

Authors: Christina Harrington

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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…

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List price: $240.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/20/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 340
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



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


Bibliography