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Title

Glendalough : city of God / Charles Doherty, Linda Doran & Mary Kelly, editors.

Publication

Dublin, Ireland ; $4c Portland, OR : Four Courts Press for the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Doherty, Charles.
• Doran, Linda, 1951-
• Kelly, Mary.
• Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.
• Lectures for the Curious (Glendalough, Ireland)
• International Medieval Congress (2007 : Leeds, England)

Description

xxxi, 383 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 26 cm.

Summary

This work explores the monastic site at Glendalough in its entirity, its archaeology, history, liturgy and intellectual concerns, and provides a clear picture of the highly developed society which grew there.

Subject

• Kloster Glendalough
• Abbaye de Glendalough (Irlande) > Actes de congrès
• Glendalough > Kloster Glendalough
• Monasteries > Glendalough Site
• Glendalough Site (Ireland)

Genre/Form

• Church history
• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Finding the city of God in the lives of St Kevin : Glendalough and the history of the Irish celestial civitas / Melanie C. Maddox -- The organization and function of an early Irish church settlement : what was Glendalough? / Colmán Etchingham -- Space organization in early Irish monasteries : the platea / Jean-Michel Picard -- Recluses, relics and corpses : interpreting St Kevin's House / Tomás Ó Carragáin -- The 'Market Cross' at Glendalough / Raghnall Ó Floinn -- Medieval burial and pilgrimage within the landscape of Glendalough : the evidence of the crosses and cross-slabs / Lorcan Harney -- The lives of Kevin (Caoimhghin) of Glendalough / Pádraig Ó Riain -- Vita Sancti Cóemgeni : an edition of the earliest manuscript version / Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel -- Monster and monastery : St Kevin's lives and the expansion of Glendalough / Brian Lacey -- Glendalough : where beauty, history and spirituality walk hand in hand / Martina Pozdechova -- A Glendalough bishop in Germany? : the Four Masters and the three Gilla na Náems / Diarmuid Ó Riain -- Uí Máil and Glendalough / Ailbhe MacShamhráin -- The Viking impact on Glendalough / Colmán Etchingham -- The study and use of numbers in early Irish monasteries / Daniel P. Mc Carthy -- Glendalough : liturgy and music / Sara G. Casey -- Was Sulien at Glendalough? / Charles Doherty -- Architectural sculpture at Glendalough / Rachel Moss -- Little-known drawings of Glendalough, c.1777-1850 / Peter Harbison -- From 'city of God' to a blueprint for the future : Glendalough in the nineteenth century / Máirín Ní Cheallaigh -- Glendalough : the RSAI's contribution to its preservation, examination and illustration / Aideen M. Ireland.

ISBN

• 9781846821707 (hbk.)
• 1846821703 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 742942596
• SCSB-11815354

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Harvard Library