Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:28:55 +0100
Priority: normal
Subject: Re: Scotti Peregini
From: "R.A.Ross" <[log in to unmask]>
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Pardon E. Tillinghast wrote:
> I do seem to remember that the Irish
> tended to be Vagantes more than say the Anglo-Saxons did; their poetry (at
> least back in Ireland) suggests that they wandered a lot too. I think the
> idea of TERRITORIAL bishops wasn't big with the Irish at this time.
There is a good summary of recent thought on the early Irish church,
and the whole issue of the existence or otherwise of a `Celtic'
church, in Wendy Davies' chapter in `The Early Church in Wales and
the West', eds. Nancy Edwards and Alan Lane (1995?). The article has
an excellent bibliography. Anyone interested in how `territorial'
Irish bishops were, and their role in the Irish ecclesiatic
situation, should look at Kathleen Hughes, `The Church in Early
Irish Society' (1966), and `Early Christian Ireland: An Introduction
to the Sources' (1972?)
Ron
Ron Ross
Archaeological Research Consultancy of the
University of Sheffield (ARCUS)
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Irish bishops were probably more territorial than has traditionally
been claimed. See Richard Sharpe's article in J. Blair and R. Sharpe,
eds. Pastoral Care before the Parish (Leicester, 1992). Our view of
the Irish church may have been influenced too much by Iona, which lay
outside Ireland.
Julia Barrow
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