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Michael Herity's essays focus on Early Christian Ireland (400-700). The collection explores monasteries, hermitages, their layouts, cross-carved slabs, and pilgrimages, and discusses the development of ideas based on Françoise Henry's work and insular Chi-rho crosses.

Table of Contents
Preface

The High Island Hermitage

The Buildings and Layout of Early Irish Monasteries before the Year 1000

The Layout of Irish Early Christian Monasteries

The Ornamented Tomb of the Saint at Ardoiléan, Co. Galway

Early Irish Hermitages in the Light of the Lives of Cuthbert

The Antiquity of an Turas (the Pilgrimage Round) in Ireland

Cathair na Naomh and its Cross-slabs

Carpet Pages and Chi-rhos

Building in Unmortared Stone to the Early Christian Period in Ireland

The Hermitage on Ardoiléan, county Galway

The Forms of the Tomb-shrine of the Founder Saint in Ireland

The Chi-Rho and Other Early Cross-forms in Ireland

Early Christian Decorated Slabs in Donegal

Additional Notes

Index

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      Publisher: Pindar Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/12/1995
      ISBN13: 9780907132813, 978-0907132813
      ISBN10: 907132812

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Michael Herity's essays focus on Early Christian Ireland (400-700). The collection explores monasteries, hermitages, their layouts, cross-carved slabs, and pilgrimages, and discusses the development of ideas based on Françoise Henry's work and insular Chi-rho crosses.

      Table of Contents
      Preface

      The High Island Hermitage

      The Buildings and Layout of Early Irish Monasteries before the Year 1000

      The Layout of Irish Early Christian Monasteries

      The Ornamented Tomb of the Saint at Ardoiléan, Co. Galway

      Early Irish Hermitages in the Light of the Lives of Cuthbert

      The Antiquity of an Turas (the Pilgrimage Round) in Ireland

      Cathair na Naomh and its Cross-slabs

      Carpet Pages and Chi-rhos

      Building in Unmortared Stone to the Early Christian Period in Ireland

      The Hermitage on Ardoiléan, county Galway

      The Forms of the Tomb-shrine of the Founder Saint in Ireland

      The Chi-Rho and Other Early Cross-forms in Ireland

      Early Christian Decorated Slabs in Donegal

      Additional Notes

      Index

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