Irish in Early Medieval Europe

Identity, Culture and Religion

AvRoy Flechner,Sven Meeder

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Irish scholars who arrived in Continental Europe in the early Middle Ages are often credited with making some of the most important contributions to European culture and learning of the time, from the introduction of a new calendar to monastic reform. Among them were celebrated personalities such as St Columbanus, John Scottus Eriugena, and Sedulius Scottus who were in the vanguard of a constant stream of arrivals from Ireland to continental Europe, collectively known as 'peregrini'. The continental response to this Irish 'diaspora' ranged from admiration to open hostility, especially when peregrini were deemed to challenge prevalent cultural or spiritual conventions. This volume brings together leading historians, archaeologists, and palaeographers who provide—for the first time—a comprehensive assessment of the phenomenon of Irish peregrini in their continental context and the manner in which it is framed by modern scholarship as well as the popular imagination.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-05-13
Mått:146 x 220 x 22 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury 3PL
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781137430601

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion
Medeltiden inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Roy Flechner is Lecturer in Early Medieval History at University College Dublin, Ireland. Sven Meeder is Lecturer in Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

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This welcome and affordable book provides a much-needed new introductory overview of early Irish culture as it relates to continent culture in the sixth and seventh centuries.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Roy Flechner and Sven Meeder1. Travel, transport and communication to and from Ireland, c.400-1100; Christopher Loveluck and Aidan O'Sullivan2. Exiles from the edge? The Irish contexts of peregrinatio; Elva Johnston3. The political context of Irish monasticism in seventh-century Francia; Yaniv Fox4. Columbanian monastic rules: dissent and experiment; Albrecht Diem5. Columbanian monasticism: a contested concept; Ian Wood6. Columbanus and the Easter controversy: theological, social and political contexts; Caitlin Corning7. Irish biblical exegesis; Mark Stansbury8. The Irish contribution to the penitential tradition; Rob Meens9. The liturgy of the Irish in Europe; Yitzhak Hen10. Computus as scientific thought in Ireland and the early medieval West; Immo Warntjes11. The Irish and Carolingian learning; Sven Meeder12. Controversies and ethnic tensions; Roy Flechner and Sven Meeder13. The Irish and their books; Elizabeth DuncanConclusionNotesFurther ReadingIndex.