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Author | : Christina Harrington |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2002-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019154308X |
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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 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.
Author | : Jean Markale |
Publisher | : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1986-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780892811502 |
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Historian Markale takes us deep into a mythical world where both man and woman become whole by realizing the feminine principle in its entirety. The author explores the rich heritage of Celtic women in history, myth, and ritual, showing how these traditions compare to modern attitudes toward women.
Author | : E. D. Wiseman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Celts |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter Berresford Ellis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Civilization, Celtic |
ISBN | : |
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Ellis's study seeks to bring sanity into the debate between feminists who see women in ancient Celtic society as prototypes and those who see these interpretations as nonsensical. The author's scholarly and balanced approach has resulted in the most revealing and reliable portrait of Celic women ever written.
Author | : Noragh Jones |
Publisher | : SteinerBooks |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1994-04 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780940262669 |
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The customs and spirituality of the traditional communities of the highlands and islands of Scotland were preserved in a way that has been lost to most people today. Jones describes the vital roles of women in those communities, with their customary powers of "seeing," healing, blessing, and cursing. Their hospitality, conviviality, and deep wisdom, together with their celebration of the tasks of daily life, have much to teach us today in our modern way of life.
Author | : Bridget Mary Meehan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Christian saints, Celtic |
ISBN | : 9780764809293 |
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Author | : Dianne Hall |
Publisher | : Four Courts Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, C.1140-1540 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A major study of women and the medieval Irish church, this book includes groundbreaking investigations of medieval nunneries in Ireland, their personnel, patrons, buildings and estates and their strategies for ensuring the productivity of their resources. The author argues for the existence of close ties between the supposedly cloistered nuns and the surrounding lay communities. Medieval women not among the small number who actually joined nunneries channeled their pious energies towards such activities as patronage of local churches and monasteries, pilgrimage and requests for papal and Episcopal privileges. These pious activities are examined in detail and placed within their European context. This exploration into a previously neglected aspect of the history of monastic and church life in medieval Ireland is a major contribution to the history of women in Ireland and Europe.
Author | : Mary Condren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : 9781902602967 |
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This landmark book on feminist political theology is back in print. Focusing on Ireland, it provides a startling account of the decline of matriarchal power in Western civilization and analyzes its implications for today's women and today's Catholic
Author | : Eamon Duffy |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300175027 |
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In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a land of whitewashed churches and antipapal preaching. What was the impact of this religious change in the countryside? And how did country people feel about the revolutionary upheavals that transformed their mental and material worlds under Henry VIII and his three children? In this book a reformation historian takes us inside the mind and heart of Morebath, a remote and tiny sheep farming village on the southern edge of Exmoor. The bulk of Morebath’s conventional archives have long since vanished. But from 1520 to 1574, through nearly all the drama of the English Reformation, Morebath’s only priest, Sir Christopher Trychay, kept the parish accounts on behalf of the churchwardens. Opinionated, eccentric, and talkative, Sir Christopher filled these vivid scripts for parish meetings with the names and doings of his parishioners. Through his eyes we catch a rare glimpse of the life and pre-Reformation piety of a sixteenth-century English village. The book also offers a unique window into a rural world in crisis as the Reformation progressed. Sir Christopher Trychay’s accounts provide direct evidence of the motives which drove the hitherto law-abiding West-Country communities to participate in the doomed Prayer-Book Rebellion of 1549 culminating in the siege of Exeter that ended in bloody defeat and a wave of executions. Its church bells confiscated and silenced, Morebath shared in the punishment imposed on all the towns and villages of Devon and Cornwall. Sir Christopher documents the changes in the community, reluctantly Protestant and increasingly preoccupied with the secular demands of the Elizabethan state, the equipping of armies, and the payment of taxes. Morebath’s priest, garrulous to the end of his days, describes a rural world irrevocably altered and enables us to hear the voices of his villagers after four hundred years of silence.
Author | : J. Philip Newell |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780809137596 |
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An overview of Celtic spirituality and its implications for us today.