Brigid’s Worlds

Proceedings from the Brigid 1500 Maynooth University and Kildare County Council Conference

Niamh Wycherley, editor

Introduction
Niamh Wycherley
St Brigit of Kildare’s 1500th anniversary

Contents

Catherine McKenna
Brigit: the knowns and the unknowns

David Stifter
The significance of ‘Brigit’

Dorothy Ann Bray
The feast day of St Brigit and the festival of Imbolg

Sharon Greene
Traces of Brigit’s material world

Catherine Swift
The nature of Brigit’s community – as viewed through a Cappadocian lens

Tiago Veloso Silva
Women’s ecclesiastical patronage: the case of Kildare

Conor McDonough
Brigit as Mary

Clare Stancliffe
The early Lives of St Brigit revisited

Elizabeth Dawson
The changing fortunes of St Brigit: navigating Uí Néill territory, Leinster & Kildare

Katja Ritari
Female sanctity in the Lives of Brigit

Thomas Owen Clancy
St Brigit and her cult in early medieval Scotland

Jean-Michel Picard
The cult of St Brigid in continental Europe and the manuscripts of Cogitosus’s Vita Brigitae

Fabio Mantegazza
The textual transmission of Cogitosus’s Vita sanctae Brigidae through the names of Brigid’s parents

Pádraig Ó Riain
From the Continent to Ireland: the written record of Brigid’s feast day