Ranging from devotional poetry to confessional history, across the span of competing religious traditions, this volume addresses the lived faith of diverse communities during the turmoil of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Together, they provide a textured understanding of the complexities in religious belief, practice and organization.
Cuprins
1. Religious Acculturation and Affiliation in Early Modern Gaelic Scotland, Gaelic Ireland, Wales and Cornwall; Tadhg Ó h Annracháin 2. The Church in Gaelic Scotland before the Reformation; Iain G. Mac Donald 3. Traditional Religion in Sixteenth-Century Gaelic Ireland; Raymond Gillespie 4. ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’: The Pre-Reformation Church in Wales; Madeleine Gray 5. Gaelic Christianity? The Church in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland before and after the Reformation; Martin Mac Gregor 6. Antiquities Cornu-Brittanick: Language, Memory and Landscape in Early Modern Cornwall; Alexandra Walsham 7. ‘Slow and cold in the true service of god’: Popular Beliefs and Practices, Conformity and Reformation in Wales, c.1530-c.1600; Katherine K. Olson 8. Gaelic Religious Poetry in Scotland: the Book of the Dean of Lismore; Sìm Innes 9. Penance and the Privateer: Handling Sin in the Bardic Religious Verse of the Book of the O’Conor Don (1631); Salvador Ryan 10. The Battle of Britain: History and Reformation in Early Modern Wales; Lloyd Bowen 11. Catholic Intellectual Culture in Early Modern Ireland; Bernadette Cunningham 12. Calvinistic Methodism and the Reformed tradition in eighteenth-century Wales; David Ceri Jones 13. ‘Celtic’ Christianities in the Age of Reformations: Language, Community, Tradition and Belief; Robert Armstrong
Despre autor
Lloyd Bowen, Cardiff University, UK Bernadette Cunningham, Royal Irish Academy Raymond Gillespie, the National University of Ireland Madeleine Gray, University of South Wales, UK Sìm Innes, University of Glasgow, UK David Ceri Jones, Aberystwyth University, UK Iain G. Mac Donald, University of Glasgow, UK Martin Mac Gregor, University of Glasgow, UK Katherine K. Olson, Bangor University, UK Salvador Ryan, St Patrick’s College, Ireland Alexandra Walsham, University of Cambridge, UK