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Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland
Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise
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2022
Summary
Clonmacnoise was among the busiest, most economically complex, and intensely sacred places in early medieval Ireland. In Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise, John Soderberg argues that animals are the key to understanding Clonmacnoise’s development as a thriving settlement and a sacred space. At this sanctuary city on the River Shannon, animal bodies were an essential source of food and raw materials. They were also depicted extensively on religious objects. Drawing from new theories about the intersections between religion and economics, John Soderberg explores how transformations emerging from animal encounters made Clonmacnoise a sacred settlement and created the sacred bodies of early medieval Ireland.
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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-3039-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-3040-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
250
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Figures and Tables No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter One Enclosure, Cattle, and Sanctuary Cities in Early Medieval Ireland No access Pages 23 - 56
Chapter Two Excavating Clonmacnoise No access Pages 57 - 82
Chapter Three Grounding the Archaeology of Religion No access Pages 83 - 114
Chapter Four Animals and the Rise of Clonmacnoise No access Pages 115 - 140
Chapter Five Animals, Tabernacles, and Towns No access Pages 141 - 182
Chapter Six The Animals of Clonmacnoise in a New Millennium No access Pages 183 - 206
