Making Christian landscapes in Atlantic Europe : conversion and consolidation in the early Middle Ages /
Ó Carragáin, Tomás,editor.
Turner, Sam(Archaeologist),editor.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 544-595) and index.
1. Introduction : making Christian landscapes in the early medieval Atlantic world / Tomás Ó Carragáin and Sam Turner -- Ireland -- 2. Hallowed by saints, coveted by kings : Christianisation and land tenure in Rathdown, c. 400-900 / Gill Boazman -- 3. Reconstructing the territorial framework for ecclesiastical and secular power structures : a case study of the kingdom of Uí Fáeláin / Paul MacCotter -- 4. Conversion and consolidation in Leinster's royal heartland / Patrick Gleeson and Tomás Ó Carragáin -- 5. Territoriality and the cult of Saint Ciarán of Saigir / Anne Connon -- 6. Early ecclesiastical precincts and landscapes of Inishowen, County Donegal / Colm O'Brien and Max Adams -- Wales and Scotland -- 7. Christianising the landscape in early medieval Wales : the island of Anglesey / Nancy Edwards -- 8. Feeding the body and claiming the spirit(s) : early Christian landscapes in west Wales / Rhiannon Comeau -- 9. Death and the formation of early Christian Scotland / Adrián Maldonado -- England -- 10. The bones of the Northumbrian landscape : technologies of social change in the conversion period / Sam Turner and Chris Fowler -- 11. Streanaeshalch (Whitby), its satellite churches and lands / Thomas Pickles -- 12. Converting the Peak District? Britons, Angles and Christians / John Moreland -- Gaul and Iberia -- 13. Funerary patterns in towns in France and England between the fourth and tenth centuries : a comparative approach / Elisabeth Lorans -- 14. Christianisation and parish formation in early medieval France : a case study of the dioceses of Rennes, Dol and St Malo / Anne Lunven -- 15. Parish boundaries and the illusion of territorial continuity in landscape archaeology : the evidence from the Touraine / Elisabeth Zadora-Rio -- 16. The creation of ecclesiastical landscapes in early medieval Galicia (northwest Spain, fifth to tenth centuries) / Jose Carlos Sánchez Pardo -- Germanic and Nordic lands -- 17. From conversion to consolidation in eighth-century Hessia / John Henry Clay -- 18. The religious transformation of a landscape : Drenthe (the Netherlands), c. AD 800-1600 / Jan Kolen -- 19. Introducing Christianity to a challenging environment : the example of Norway / Saebjorg Walaker Nordeide -- 20. Alternative histories on the making of the early Christian landscape of Iceland / Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir.
Christianity and culture
Christian antiquities
Landscapes
Civilization, Medieval.