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The church in early Irish society

Kathleen Hughes 1966 © Kathleen Hughes
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  • European: 400-1400
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  • Table of Contents

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  • 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
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SP 43.1 (Jan. 1968): 161-163 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0038-7134%28196801%2943%3A1%3C161%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
AHR 73.1 (Oct. 1967): 113-114 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28196710%2973%3A1%3C113%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
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