Women in a Celtic Church by Christina Harrington

Oxford University Press
Women in a Celtic Church by Christina Harrington
Women in a Celtic Church by Christina Harrington
Product Specifications
  • Title: Women in a Celtic Church by Christina Harrington
  • Author: Christina Harrington
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • History
  • No. of pages: 340
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 241 x 165 x 25

Product Description

This work is a ground-breaking 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.