The Church in Early Irish Society

by Kathleen Hughes

Overview

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 and eighth centuries and attempts through them, to trace the gradual process of modification which culminated in the eighth century, when the church now fully adjusted to Irish society, reached a so-far unprecedented height of power and influence. The book also examines the issues faced in the ninth century by the Viking raids and settlements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367203412
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2020
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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