The island of St Patrick : Church and ruling dynasties in Fingal and Meath, 400-1148 /

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Imprint:Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, 2004.
Description:192 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5186321
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Other authors / contributors:MacShamhráin, Ailbhe.
Thomas, Charles, 1928-
ISBN:1851828672
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Editor's preface
  • List of abbreviations
  • Palladius and Patrick
  • Medieval sub-kingdoms of Brega: the kingships of Calatruim, Dessi Breg, Mugdornae Breg and Ui Maic Uais Breg
  • An ecclesiastical enclosure in the townland of Grange, parish of Holmpatrick
  • St Patrick, Skerries and the earliest evidence for local church organization in Ireland
  • Peregrinatio Columbae
  • Representations of St Patrick
  • Church Island: a description
  • Church and dynasty in Early Christian Brega: Lusk, Inis Patriaic and the case of Mael-Finnia, king and saint
  • Christian cults and cult-centres in Hiberno-Norse Dublin and its hinterland
  • The twelfth-century reform and Inis Patriaic
  • Notes on contributors
  • List of figures and tables
  • Index