Brides of Christ

Women and monasticism in medieval and early modern Ireland

Martin Browne OSB, Tracy Collins, Bronagh Ann McShane & Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB, editors

Foreword
Abbess Máire Hickey OSB

Introduction
Tracy Collins & Bronagh Ann McShane

‘On the brink of the wave’: Towards an archaeology of female religious in early medieval Ireland
Tracy Collins

Locating female saints and their foundations in the early medieval Irish martyrologies
Elva Johnston

Soul sisters: Two Irish holy women in their late antique context
Catherine Swift

The other peregrinatio: Pilgrim nuns in medieval Regensburg and their Irish connections
Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel

Putting women in order: A comparison of the medieval women religious of Ballymore-Loughsewdy and Prémontré
Yvonne Seale

Keeping it in the family: Familial connections of abbesses and prioresses of convents in medieval Ireland
Mary Ann Lyons

Marginal figures? Quasi-religious women in medieval Ireland
Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB

Sisters of the priory confraternity of Christ Church, Dublin, in the late middle ages
Colm Lennon

Who were the nuns in early modern Ireland?
Bronagh Ann McShane

Epilogue
Brides of Christ: Ladies of fame and women worthy of praise
Bishop Anne Dyer