De Locis Sanctis provides no evidence for the presence of a text of the Vetus Latina or the Septuagint in the library of Iona in the last quarter of the seventh century; quotations from these texts may have been drawn from an intermediate source.
On the relationship between the peregrinus (ailithir) and Irish social organisation; distinction of two grades of peregrinatioailithre); discussion of related terminology.
Republ. in The Otherworld voyage in early Irish literature, pp. 94-108.
Extract of a letter in English (1609) by archbishop William Daniell, entitled De herenachis et Termon lands and containing a discussion of the terms termonn, coarb and airchinnech. From MS TCD E 3. 16, f. 78v.
Discusses implications of the use of certain words in sixth-, seventh- and early eighth-century Ireland, e.g. Lat. princeps, principatus, census, ius, regnum and Ir. toísigecht [sic leg.], flaith, flaithem, flaithemnacht, airchinnech, etc.
§1. An léann eaglasta i measc Proinnsiasach ag deireadh an 15ú céad (i. Clár leabharlainne Mhainistir Eochaille a.d. 1491 [Irish translation provided in Aguisín]; ii. Lámhscríbhinn Laidine Phroinsiasach c. a.d. 1455); §2. Lámhscríbhinní Laidine le hábhar diagachta agus cráifeachta; §3. Na príomhlámhscríbhinní Gaeilge le hábhar diagachta 1200-1500; §4. Aistriúcháin agus scríbhinní diagachta i nGaeilge 1200-1500 [A survey of 23 religious texts in Irish]; §5. Scríbhinní fealsúnachta in Éirinn 1200-1500 [A survey of 21 philosophical MSS, some in Irish].
[1.] Paruchia in canons and hagiography; [2.] Córas Béscnai and the ‘Drumlease document’; [3.] Conclusion. Paruchia refers to the pastoral jurisdiction of a bishop and not to a federation of geographicaly dispersed monasteries.
Some discussion of the terms samchásc ‘summer Easter’, corgus ‘Lent’, samchorgus ‘summer Lent’, gamchorgus ‘winter Lent’ and minchásc ‘Low
Sunday’. Concludes that the St Gall Priscian MS was begun in October 850 and completed in August 851.
On Ailbe, saint patron of Shancough, Co. Sligo, as an example of the involvement of hereditary ecclesiastic families in the diffusion of saints’ cults.
Brand (Paul A.): King, church and property: The enforcement of restrictions on alienations into mortmain in the Lordship of Ireland in the later middle ages.
O’Loughlin (Thomas): Celtic theology: humanity, world and God in early Irish writings.
London and New York: Continuum, 2000. xvii + 235 pp.
Discusses early Irish expressions of theology based on an examination of texts by St. Patrick, Adomnán, Muirchú and other sources such as the Penitentials, the Collectio canonum hibernensis, etc.
Rev. by
Ian Bradley, in JEH 53/1 (Jan., 2002), pp. 136-137.
Etchingham (Colmán): Church organisation in Ireland, a. d. 650 to 1000.
Maynooth: Laigin Publications, 1999. viii + 538 pp.
Rev. by
Craig Haggart, in IR 51/2 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 193-194.
Bart Jaski, in Early medieval Europe 10/2 (Jul., 2001), pp. 284-285.
Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, in Peritia 15 (2001), pp. 413-420.
Pádraig P. Ó Néill, in Éigse 33 (2002), pp. 243-245.
Bonner (Gerald) (ed.), Rollason (David) (ed.), Stancliffe (Clare) (ed.): St. Cuthbert, his cult and his community to AD 1200 / edited by Gerald Bonner, David Rollason, Clare Stancliffe.
Woodbridge: Boydell, 1989. xxiii + 484 pp.
Rev. by
William O’Sullivan, in Peritia 8 (1994), pp. 80-94.
McNeill (John T.): The Celtic churches: a history, AD 200 to 1200.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. xiii + 289 pp.
Rev. by
Ludwig Bieler, in Speculum 52/2 (Apr., 1977), pp. 402-406.
Leonard E. Boyle, in The Canadian historical review 57/3 (Sept., 1976), p. 322.
James Bulloch, in The Scottish historical review 54/1 (Apr., 1975), pp. 87-88.
Burg (Cors van der) (ed.), Gort (Jerry) (ed.), Kranenborg (Reender) (ed.), Minnema (Lourens) (ed.), Vroom (Henk) (ed.): Veelkleurig christendom: contextualisatie in Noord, Zuid, Oost
en West / onder redactie van Cors van der Burg, Jerry Gort, Reender Kranenborg, Lourens Minnema en Henk Vroom.
Johnston (Elva): When worlds collide: pagans and Christians in fifth and sixth century.
Hughes lectures, 16. Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic & Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, 2018. ii + 36 pp. (Kathleen Hughes memorial lectures, 16).