Christina Harrington, Women in a Celtic Church: Ireland 450-1150
ISBN: 0198208235 | edition 2002 | PDF | 341 pages | 10 mb
ISBN: 0198208235 | edition 2002 | PDF | 341 pages | 10 mb
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.