Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION (page ix)
- I. BIRTH
- 1. The heathen Celts (page 3)
- 2. East Mediterranean Christianity (page 10)
- 3. The western provinces (page 17)
- 4. The first missionaries (page 25)
- II. GROWTH
- 5. The problems of the sixth-century church (page 39)
- 6. The foundation of monastic paruchiae (page 57)
- 7. The when and why of early monastic paruchiae (page 65)
- 8. Bishops and monastic confederations (page 79)
- 9. Ireland and the outside world (page 91)
- 10. Seventh-century controversies (page 103)
- 11. Armagh's claims to archiepiscopal authority (page 111)
- III. MATURITY
- 12. Irish canonists and the secular law (page 123)
- 13. Monastic establishment (page 134)
- 14. The uses of power (page 143)
- 15. The 'abuses' of power (page 157)
- 16. Ascetic revival (page 173)
- 17. The influence of the ascetic revival (page 185)
- IV. ADVERSITY AND RECOVERY
- 18. The church and the Viking terror (page 197)
- 19. The ecclesiastical order and the early Viking settlement (page 203)
- 20. The world in the church (page 215)
- 21. Spiritual, intellectual, and artistic life (page 227)
- 22. Restoration (page 238)
- V. TRANSMUTATION
- 23. Influences from abroad (page 253)
- 24. Reformation and revolution (page 263)
- APPENDIX Liber Angeli (page 275 )
- ABBREVIATIONS (page 282 )
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 284 )
- NOTES ON PLATES (page 293 )
- PLATES
- INDEX (page 297 )
- Map of Ireland