Irish scholars who arrived in Continental Europe in the early Middle Ages are often credited with making some of the most important contributions to European culture and learning of the time, from the introduction of a new calendar to monastic reform. Among them were celebrated personalities such as St Columbanus, John Scottus Eriugena, and Sedulius Scottus who were in the vanguard of a constant stream of arrivals from Ireland to continental Europe, collectively known as 'peregrini'. The continental response to this Irish 'diaspora' ranged from admiration to open hostility, especially when peregrini were deemed to challenge prevalent cultural or spiritual conventions.
This volume brings together leading historians, archaeologists, and palaeographers who provide-for the first time-a comprehensive assessment of the phenomenon of Irish peregrini in their continental context and the manner in which it is framed by modern scholarship as well as the popular imagination.
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The Irish in Early Medieval Europe
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Maps, Figures and Tables
- Maps
- Notes on the Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: Saints and Scholars
- 1 Travel, Transport and Communication to and from Ireland, c. 400-1100: an Archaeological Perspective
- 2 Exiles from the Edge? The Irish Contexts of Peregrinatio
- 3 The Political Context of Irish Monasticism in Seventh-Century Francia: Another Look at the Sources
- 4 Columbanian Monastic Rules: Dissent and Experiment
- 5 Columbanian Monasticism: a Contested Concept
- 6 Columbanus and the Easter Controversy: Theological, Social and Political Contexts
- 7 Irish Biblical Exegesis
- 8 The Irish Contribution to the Penitential Tradition
- 9 The Liturgy of the Irish on the Continent
- 10 Computus as Scientific Thought in Ireland and the Early Medieval West
- 11 Irish Scholars and Carolingian Learning
- 12 Controversies and Ethnic Tensions
- 13 The Irish and their Books 214
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Index
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