Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland
Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise- Authors:
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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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Bibliographic data
- 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
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Table of contents
- 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
- Afterword No access Pages 207 - 210
- Bibliography No access Pages 211 - 244
- Index No access Pages 245 - 248
- About the Author No access Pages 249 - 250





