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The church in early Irish society
Hughes, Kathleen, 1927?-1977.
Year: 1966.
Publisher:  Cornell University Press. 
© Kathleen Hughes
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Frontmatter
INTRODUCTION
I. BIRTH
1. The heathen Celts
2. East Mediterranean Christianity
3. The western provinces
4. The first missionaries
II. GROWTH
5. The problems of the sixth-century church
6. The foundation of monastic paruchiae
7. The when and why of early monastic paruchiae
8. Bishops and monastic confederations
9. Ireland and the outside world
10. Seventh-century controversies
11. Armagh's claims to archiepiscopal authority
III. MATURITY
12. Irish canonists and the secular law
13. Monastic establishment
14. The uses of power
15. The 'abuses' of power
16. Ascetic revival
17. The influence of the ascetic revival
IV. ADVERSITY AND RECOVERY
18. The church and the Viking terror
19. The ecclesiastical order and the early Viking settlement
20. The world in the church
21. Spiritual, intellectual, and artistic life
22. Restoration
V. TRANSMUTATION
23. Influences from abroad
24. Reformation and revolution
APPENDIX Liber Angeli
ABBREVIATIONS
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES ON PLATES
PLATES
INDEX
Map of Ireland
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Title: The church in early Irish society : Kathleen Hughes.
Author: Hughes, Kathleen, 1927?-1977
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Source Version: The church in early Irish society : Kathleen Hughes. 
Hughes, Kathleen, 1927?-1977
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1966.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01509
Subject Headings: • Celtic Church
• Ireland -- History -- To 1172
• Ireland -- Church history -- 600-1500
Notes: • Includes index.
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