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ISBN 10: 0198208235

ISBN 13: 978-0198208235

Author: Christina Harrington

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.

Table of contents:

Part I: The Conversion Period: The Fifth and Sixth Centuries

1: Religious Women in the Conversion Perid c.AD 400-600

2: Christian Virgins and their Churches in the Sixth Century: The View from the Seventh

Part II: The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Centuries

Introduction

3: Nuns in the Large Women's Monasteries

4: Nuns in Other Settings

5: Women of God in the Seventh to Ninth Centuries

6: Abbesses and other High-Ranking Holy Women

Part III: The Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Centuries

Introduction

7: Nuns, Abbesses, Saints, and their Monasteries, c.900-1200

8: Proximities and Boundaries: Sexual Anxiety and the Monastery

9: The Virgin Consort in Hagiography

10: 'Generous Eve' and the Echoes of Reform

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