Christianities in the Early Modern Celtic World

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.

This collection includes a variety of essays examining religious change across Gaelic Scotland, Gaelic Ireland, Wales and Cornwall in the early modern period. it is a stimulating starting point and it will no doubt be beneficial to readers with a specific interest in Christianity in the Celtic world, as well as to those with a more general interest in the early modern period. (Russell Newton, The Innes Review, Vol. 68 (1), May, 2017)

The title of this collection announces a project to understand the processes of enculturation of early modern versions of Christianity across a set of geographical zones described as 'celtic'. This might be an avenue for further investigation, aided by cultural anthropologists of a historical or archeological bent. (Thomas O'Connor, Studia Hibernica, Vol. 41, 2014)

Auteur
Lloyd Bowen, Cardiff University, UK Bernadette Cunningham, Royal Irish Academy Raymond Gillespie, the National University of Ireland Madeleine Gray, University of South Wales, UK Sìm Innes, University of Glasgow, UK David Ceri Jones, Aberystwyth University, UK Iain G. MacDonald, University of Glasgow, UK Martin MacGregor, University of Glasgow, UK Katherine K. Olson, Bangor University, UK Salvador Ryan, St Patrick's College, Ireland Alexandra Walsham, University of Cambridge, UK

Contenu

1. Religious Acculturation and Affiliation in Early Modern Gaelic Scotland, Gaelic Ireland, Wales and Cornwall; Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin 2. The Church in Gaelic Scotland before the Reformation; Iain G. MacDonald 3. Traditional Religion in Sixteenth-Century Gaelic Ireland; Raymond Gillespie 4. 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time': The Pre-Reformation Church in Wales; Madeleine Gray 5. Gaelic Christianity? The Church in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland before and after the Reformation; Martin MacGregor 6. Antiquities Cornu-Brittanick: Language, Memory and Landscape in Early Modern Cornwall; Alexandra Walsham 7. 'Slow and cold in the true service of god': Popular Beliefs and Practices, Conformity and Reformation in Wales, c.1530-c.1600; Katherine K. Olson 8. Gaelic Religious Poetry in Scotland: the Book of the Dean of Lismore; Sìm Innes 9. Penance and the Privateer: Handling Sin in the Bardic Religious Verse of the Book of the O'Conor Don (1631); Salvador Ryan 10. The Battle of Britain: History and Reformation in Early Modern Wales; Lloyd Bowen 11. Catholic Intellectual Culture in Early Modern Ireland; Bernadette Cunningham 12. Calvinistic Methodism and the Reformed tradition in eighteenth-century Wales; David Ceri Jones 13. 'Celtic' Christianities in the Age of Reformations: Language, Community, Tradition and Belief; Robert Armstrong