Bibliography on Celtic Women


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These are the main sources for the series of articles concerning Celtic women.

Primary Sources

Bieler, Ludwig, Ed. The Irish Penitentials. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1963.

De Paor, Liam, Ed. and Trans. "Bishop Tirechan's Account of St. Patrick's Journey," in St. Patrick's World: The Christian Culture of Ireland's Apostolic Age. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1993.

-----. "Muirchu's Life of St. Patrick," in St. Patrick's World: The Christian Culture of Ireland's Apostolic Age. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1993.

-----. "St. Patrick's Letter Against the Soldiers of Coroticus," in St. Patrick's World: The Christian Culture of Ireland's Apostolic Age. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1993.

-----."Cogitosus' Life of Saint Brigid the Virgin," in St. Patrick's World: The Christian Culture of Ireland's Apostolic Age. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1993.

-----. "The Life of St. Darerca, or Moninna, the Abbess," in St. Patrick's World: The Christian Culture of Ireland's Apostolic Age. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1993.

MacDonald, Iain, Ed. "The Life of Brigid from the Book of Lismore", in Saint Bride. Edinburgh: Floris Books, 1992.

-----. "Hail Brigid," in Saint Bride. Edinburgh: Floris Books, 1992.

Secondary Sources

Cherici, Peter. Celtic Sexuality: Power, Paradigms and Passion. np.: Tyrone Press, 1995.

Condren, Mary. The Serpent and the Goddess: Women Religion and Power in Celtic Ireland. Edinburgh: T&T Clarke, 1990.

Davies, Oliver and Fiona Bowie, eds. Celtic Christian Spirituality: An Anthology of Medieval and Modern Sources. New York: Continuum, 1995.

Davies, Wendy. "Celtic Women in the Early Middle Ages." In Images of Women in Antiquity, edited by Averil Cameron and Amélie Kuhrt, 145-66. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983.

De Paor, Liam. St. Patrick's World: The Christian Culture of Ireland's Apostolic Age. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1993.

Driscoll, S. T., and M. R. Nieke, eds. Power and Politics in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1988.

Ellis, Peter Beresford. Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Pub., 1996.

-----. The Druids. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Pub.,1994.

Hughes, Kathleen. Church and Society in Ireland: 400-1200. London: Variorum, 1987

-----. Early Christian Ireland: Introduction to the Sources. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1972.

MacNeill, John T. The Celtic Churches: A History AD 200 to 1200. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Markale, Jean. Women of the Celts. London: Gordon Cremonesi, 1975.

McNally, Robert, Ed. Old Ireland. New York: Fordham University Press, 1965.

Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí. Early Medieval Ireland, 400-1200. London: Longman, 1995

Web Sites: Confession of St. Patrick. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pa...

The Lorrah Missal. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3374/sto...

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