Author: Catherine ThomPublisher: T&T Clark
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An exploration of the ascetical theology and praxis of sixth to eighth century Irish monasticism as a radical response to the gospel.
Early Irish Monasticism
Author: Catherine ThomPublisher: T&T Clark
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An exploration of the ascetical theology and praxis of sixth to eighth century Irish monasticism as a radical response to the gospel.
The Modern Traveller to the Early Irish Church
Author: Kathleen HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The monastic sites of early Christian Ireland have always been an attraction to visitors. Now issued in a new edition, this book is intended for use by those who wish to understand the religious and secular life of early Ireland. The authors have used the site remains and historical source material to reconstruct the life of Irish monks and laymen from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Here the reader will find treatments of the function of monasteries in early Ireland, the daily life of their inhabitants, and the significance of their art and sculpture. The appendices include a county-by-county guide to the most interesting early Christian sites.
The Early Irish Monastic Schools
Author: Hugh GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Isle of the Saints
Author: Lisa M. BitelPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501711776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Isle of the Saints recreates the harsh yet richly spiritual world of medieval Irish monks on the Christian frontier of barbarian Europe. Lisa Bitel draws on accounts of saints' lives written between 800 and 1200 to explain, from the monks' own perspective, the social networks that bound them to one another and to their secular neighbors.
Cáin Adamnáin
Author: Kuno MeyerIrish Monasticism
Author: John RyanPublisher: Four Courts PressLtd
ISBN: 9781851821129
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Author: Thomas CahillPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307755134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift! Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars"—and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost—they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.
The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism
Author: Bernice M. KaczynskiPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199689733
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 743
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism addresses, for the first time in one volume, multiple strands of Christian monastic practice. Forty-four essays consider historical and thematic aspects of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Protestant, and Anglican traditions, as well as contemporary 'new monasticism'.
Early Irish Monasticism
Author: Catherine ThomThe Celtic Monk
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879076627
Category : Celtic Church
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Early Middle Ages, the Irish temperament 'individualistic, poetic, and deeply loyal to family 'produced great and learned saints and a unique monastic literature. Before the Norman Invasion, the isolation of the island allowed the development of traditions quite different from those of the continent or Britain. The rules, maxims, litanies, and poems of early Irish monks convey the spirituality of the Isle of Saints in the sixth to eighth centuries.