| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 329 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Contents; List of Maps; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Irish Holy woman and her Modern Inquisitors; Part I: The Conversion Period: The Fifth and Sixth Centuries; 1: Religious Women in the Conversion Perid c. AD 400-600; 2: Christian Virgins and their Churches in the Sixth Century: The View from the Seventh; Part II: The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Centuries; Introduction; 3: Nuns in the Large Women's Monasteries; 4: Nuns in Other Settings; 5: Women of God in the Seventh to Ninth Centuries; 6: Abbesses and other High-Ranking Holy Women |
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Part III: The Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth CenturiesIntroduction; 7: Nuns, Abbesses, Saints, and their Monasteries, c.900-1200; 8: Proximities and Boundaries: Sexual Anxiety and the Monastery; 9: The Virgin Consort in Hagiography; 10: 'Generous Eve' and the Echoes of Reform; Bibliography; Maps; Index |
| Summary |
This title covers the development of women's religious professions in the primitive church in St Patrick's era and the development of women's monasteries such as Kildare, Clonbroney Cloonburren, and Killeedy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-313) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women, Celtic -- Religious life -- Ireland -- History
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Women in Christianity -- Ireland -- History
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Celtic Church -- History
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Celtic Church
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Women in Christianity
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| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- Church history -- To 1172.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067967
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| Subject |
Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191543081 |
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019154308X |
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1280445645 |
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9781280445644 |
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9780198208235 |
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0198208235 |
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