Description
Book SynopsisMichael 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 ContentsPreface
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
