Christianities in the Early Modern Celtic World [electronic resource] /
hAnnracháin, Tadhg Ó.editor.
Armstrong, Robert.editor.
Ranging from devotional poetry to confessional history, across the span of competing religious traditions, this volume addresses the lived faith of diverse communities during the turmoil of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Together, they provide a textured understanding of the complexities in religious belief, practice and organization.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Abbreviations; Note on Nomenclature; Introduction: Religious Acculturation and Affiliation in Early Modern Gaelic Scotland, Gaelic Ireland, Wales and Cornwall; Part I: Traditional Religion and Reformation Change; 1 The Church in Gaelic Scotland before the Reformation; 2 Traditional Religion in Sixteenth-Century Gaelic Ireland; 3 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time': The Pre-Reformation Church in Wales
4 Gaelic Christianity? The Church in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland before and after the Reformation5 Antiquities Cornu-Brittanick: Language, Memory and Landscape in Early Modern Cornwall; 6 'Slow and Cold in the True Service of God': Popular Beliefs and Practices, Conformity and Reformation in Wales, c.1530-c.1600; Part II: Culture and Belief in Celtic Britain and Ireland; 7 Gaelic Religious Poetry in Scotland: The Book of the Dean of Lismore; 8 Penance and the Privateer: Handling Sin in the Bardic Religious Verse of the Book of the O'Conor Don (1631)
9 The Battle of Britain: History and Reformation in Early Modern Wales10 Catholic Intellectual Culture in Early Modern Ireland; 11 Calvinistic Methodism and the Reformed Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Wales; 12 Conclusion: Celtic Christianities in the Age of Reformations: Language, Community, Tradition and Belief; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ranging from devotional poetry to confessional history, across the span of competing religious traditions, this volume addresses the lived faith of diverse communities during the turmoil of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Together, they provide a textured understanding of the complexities in religious belief, practice and organization.
History, Modern.
Great Britain-History.
Philosophy (General).
Christianity.
Europe-History-1492-.
Social history.
Modern History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Philosophy.
Christianity.
History of Early Modern Europe.
Social History.