Table of Contents

Introduction; Roy Flechner and Sven Meeder 1. Travel, transport and communication to and from Ireland, c.400-1100; Christopher Loveluck and Aidan O'Sullivan 2. Exiles from the edge? The Irish contexts of peregrinatio; Elva Johnston 3. The political context of Irish monasticism in seventh-century Francia; Yaniv Fox 4. Columbanian monastic rules: dissent and experiment; Albrecht Diem5. Columbanian monasticism: a contested concept; Ian Wood 6. Columbanus and the Easter controversy: theological, social and political contexts; Caitlin Corning 7. Irish biblical exegesis; Mark Stansbury 8. The Irish contribution to the penitential tradition; Rob Meens 9. The liturgy of the Irish in Europe; Yitzhak Hen 10. Computus as scientific thought in Ireland and the early medieval West; Immo Warntjes 11. The Irish and Carolingian learning; Sven Meeder 12. Controversies and ethnic tensions; Roy Flechner and Sven Meeder 13. The Irish and their books; Elizabeth Duncan Conclusion Notes Further Reading Index.

About the Author

Roy Flechner is Lecturer in Early Medieval History at University College Dublin, Ireland. Sven Meeder is Lecturer in Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Reviews

This welcome and affordable book provides a much-needed new introductory overview of early Irish culture as it relates to continent culture in the sixth and seventh centuries.
*James T. Palmer, University of St Andrews, UK*

The volume both reflects the direction of current scholarship and points to future avenues of research; the further reading section will help students pursue their own studies. The Irish in Early Medieval Europe is an accessible introduction that will deservedly feature on student reading lists and be a help to interested academics.
*Ali Bonner, Óenach, FMRSI Reviews, Vol. 9*