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Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland
Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise
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- English
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eBook - PDF
Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland
Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise
About this book
Clonmacnoise was among the busiest, most economically complex, and intensely sacred places in early medieval Ireland. In Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise, John Soderberg argues that animals are the key to understanding Clonmacnoise's development as a thriving settlement and a sacred space. At this sanctuary city on the River Shannon, animal bodies were an essential source of food and raw materials. They were also depicted extensively on religious objects. Drawing from new theories about the intersections between religion and economics, John Soderberg explores how transformations emerging from animal encounters made Clonmacnoise a sacred settlement and created the sacred bodies of early medieval Ireland.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- Chapter One Enclosure, Cattle, and Sanctuary Cities in Early Medieval Ireland
- Chapter Two Excavating Clonmacnoise
- Chapter Three Grounding the Archaeology of Religion
- Chapter Four Animals and the Rise of Clonmacnoise
- Chapter Five Animals, Tabernacles, and Towns
- Chapter Six The Animals of Clonmacnoise in a New Millennium
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author