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The Community of Comgall in the North Channel Seascape: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Early Medieval Monasteries at Bangor, Applecross, Lismor

The Community of Comgall in the North Channel Seascape: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Early Medieval Monasteries at Bangor, Applecross, Lismor

McNamara, Carolyn

Hardcover

Series: The North Atlantic World

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Christianity

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ISBN10: 2503600735
ISBN13: 9782503600734
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: Jan 31 2023
Pages: 355
Weight: 206.78
Language: English
This book places the North Channel at the centre of an active and peopled seascape. Rather than viewing the foundations around its rim as peripheral in relation to more inland centres of power and modern understanding, the goal is to place the North Channel Zone at the centre of an active and connected region. In order to examine this idea more fully, a case study approach is employed on another proposed Community of monasteries linked by the sea: those related to, or potentially related to, St Comgall and his main monastery at Bangor. The main question asked focuses on whether a Community of Comgall wider than the monastery of Bangor itself existed between the sixth to eleventh centuries. This inquiry is made by selecting specific sites in the west of Scotland: Applecross and the islands of Lismore and Tiree, and undertaking an interdisciplinary analysis of the sites, including textual, art historical, archaeological, and toponymic evidence along with a general phenomenological approach.

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