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1st Edition

The Church in Early Irish Society

By Kathleen Hughes Copyright 1966
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1966, The Church in Early Irish Society traces the history of the church right up until the twelfth century. It gives an account of the problems which arose when the organization of the Christian church, imported from the urban bureaucracy of the Roman Empire, had to be adapted to the society of early Ireland. The book also looks at the legal texts of the sixth seventh... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Birth

1 The Heathen Celts

2. East Mediterranean Christianity

3. The Western Provinces

4. The First Missionaries

Part II: Growth

5. The Problems of the Sixth-Century Church

6. The Foundation of Monastic Paruchiae

7. The When and Why of Early Monastic Paruchiae

8. Bishops and Monastic Confederations in the Seventh Century

9. Ireland and the Outside World

10. Seventh-Century Controversies

11. Armagh’s Claims to Archiepiscopal Authority

Part III: Maturity

12. Irish Canonists and the Secular Law

13. Monastic Establishment

14. The Uses of Power

15. The ‘Abuses’ of Power

16. Ascetic Revival

17. The Influence of the Ascetic Revival

Part IV: Adversity and Recovery

18. The Church and the Viking Terror

19. The Ecclesiastical Order and the Early Viking Settlement

20. The World in the Church

21. Spiritual, Intellectual, and Artistic Life

22. Restoration

Part V: Transmutation

23. Influences from Abroad

24. Reformation and Revolution

Appendix

Liber Angeli

Abbreviations

Select Bibliography

Index

Map of Ireland

Biography

Kathleen Hughes

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