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Women in a Celtic Church: Ireland 450 – 1150
Author(s): Christina Harrington (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: June 20, 2002
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 340 pages
- ISBN-10: 0198208235
- ISBN-13: 9780198208235
Book Description
This work is a groundbreaking study of the varieties of holy life available to, and pursued by, early medieval Irish women. The author explores a wide range of source material from legal texts, saints’ lives, litanies, penitentials, canons, and poetry in order to illuminate female religious life and changes in attitudes towards it over time.
Editorial Reviews
Review
`This book will give instructors in early Irish history and their students much to think about and debate’ The Medieval Review
About the Author
Christina Harrington is at The Queen’s University, Belfast.
