New scientific research confirms Irish provenance of manuscripts on loan from Switzerland, returning to Ireland for the first ...

This scholarly work is a valuable contribution to the overall history of monasticism in Ireland as it explores “the hidden years” of that tradition, following its much vaunted “golden age ...

The writer and podcaster's documentary, Blindboy: The Land of Slaves and Scholars, explores the origins and evolution of early Irish Christianity, hermits, saints and monasteries, to try to find ...

At the time, Ireland had been Christian for at least three centuries, and its monasteries were its wealthiest and most powerful institutions. Early medieval texts refer to the Vikings as simply ...

With input from historians and local experts, Blindboy interrogates our early medieval ... what did Irish Christian missionaries, hermits, and monasteries contribute to the Irish writing tradition?

These Lives created a narrative of early Irish history that supported the political/ecclesiastical elites by showing that their power derived from the actions of their patron saints. An archaeological ...

This is what makes early Irish literature so rich ... the church (that is to say the monasteries) and the filidh had come to terms and from that time on there is evidence of an ever-increasing ...

Monasteries were important seats of art, knowledge and devotion in the early days of Christianity, and Irish monasteries protected their treasures and the people living near them. The monks ...

The monastery was one of many built along the Thames River, which was central to important early medieval trade routes ... Library’s Alison Hudson. Irish missionaries sent by Pope Gregory ...