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Ireland's Deserts-Fathers, the Culdees - An Introduction to Their Consuetudinal Literature (Hardcover)
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Ireland's Deserts-Fathers, the Culdees - An Introduction to Their Consuetudinal Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Publications of the Journal of Celtic Studies,, 5
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The culdees (celi De, 'dependants of god', in Old and Middle Irish)
were a strict-regime ascetic movement in the Gaelic Churches from
the late eighth century. Various classes of (largely vernacular)
Irish literature have been attributed to them, with greatly
differing degrees of plausibility. Since they were first brought to
scholarly prominence - in a classic publication by William Reeves
in 1864 - they have captured the imagination of students of
mediaeval Gaelic history, literature and spirituality. The present
study is devoted to the texts which give us close-up views of their
daily life. Through close attention to the four surviving versions
of a text originally written about A.D. 840, probably at Terryglass
in Munster but celebrating in particular the way of life at
Tallaght Abbey (near Dublin) under its founder Mael Ruain, we can
learn much about the culdee-movement. These are compelling texts,
giving the reader a ringside-view of the aspirations, daily life,
debates, fears, and rigours of high-minded and fiercely determined
monks of the earlier Middle Ages. The author pays particular
attention to analysing these texts for evidence about their
origins, their author's (or authors') outlook, and the history,
ideology, and structures of the culdee-movement in its first two
generations.
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