The Early Irish Monastic Schools / A study of Ireland's contribution to early medieval culture
by Hugh Graham
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Excerpt from The Early Irish Monastic Schools: A Study of Ireland's Contribution, to Early Medieval CultureThe aim of the present study is to give within reasonable limits a critical and fairly complete account of the Irish Monastic Schools which flourished prior to 900 A.D.The period dealt with covering as it does the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries is one of the most obscure in the history of education. In accordance with established custom writers are wont to bewail the decline of learning consequent on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and then they pass on rapi...
Chapters (276)
- THE EARLY IRISH MONASTIC SCHOOLS
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I
- ARCHÆOLOGICAL EVIDENCE:
- THE BREHON LAWS:
- EVIDENCE FROM EARLY IRISH LITERATURE:
- FOREIGN TESTIMONY:
- OGAM INSCRIPTIONS:
- DESCRIPTION OF OGAM:
- SUMMARY:
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- INFLUENCE OF CLONARD MONASTERY:
- EDUCATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE IRISH CHURCH.
- IMPOSSIBILITY OF COMPILING A COMPLETE LIST OF MONASTIC SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARS:
- GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF IRISH MONASTIC SCHOOLS:
- SCOTLAND:
- ENGLAND:
- IRISH FOUNDATIONS ON THE CONTINENT:
- RELATION OF THE IRISH MONASTIC CHURCH TO THE ROMAN CHURCH:
- THE CALCULATION OF EASTER:
- THE TONSURE CONTROVERSY:
- YEAR.—DISTRICT AFFECTED BY THE CHANGE:[130]
- EFFECT OF THE EASTER CONTROVERSY ON EDUCATION:
- ORGANIZATION OF THE IRISH MONASTERY ON A TRIBAL BASIS:
- REVENUES AND MEANS OF SUPPORT.
- THE BUILDINGS:
- DAILY LIFE IN AN IRISH MONASTERY:
- FASTING:
- PRAYER:
- LABOUR:
- STUDY:
- OTHER PRACTICES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF IRISH MONASTIC LIFE: OBEDIENCE:
- MORAL COURAGE:
- SILENCE:
- HOSPITALITY:
- LOVE OF NATURE:
- CHAPTER IV
- DUAL SYSTEM OF SCHOOLS:
- LAY SCHOOLS:
- RE-ORGANIZATION OF BARDIC SCHOOLS:
- EDUCATION OF LAYMEN:
- RELATION OF THE LAY SCHOOL TO THE MONASTIC SCHOOL:
- HOME EDUCATION AND FOSTERAGE:
- EDUCATION OF WOMEN:
- FOREIGN STUDENTS IN IRELAND:
- CHAPTER V
- THE SCHOOL:
- METHODS OF TEACHING:
- THE SCRIPTORIUM:
- PENS:
- THE SCRIBE:
- IRISH SCRIPT:
- IRISH HAND ABROAD:
- LIBRARIES:
- LIST[321] OF LIBRARIES CONTAINING MSS. WITH IRISH GLOSSES THEREON NOT LATER THAN END OF NINTH OR BEGINNING OF TENTH CENTURY:
- CHAPTER VI
- STUDY OF THE SCRIPTURES:
- STUDY OF THE LATIN CLASSICAL AUTHORS:
- STUDY OF GREEK IN EARLY MEDIÆVAL IRELAND:
- MUSIC:
- ART:
- CHARACTERISTICS OF IRISH ART:
- ILLUMINATION:
- ART METAL WORK:
- STONE CARVING:
- MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE:
- ARITHMETIC:
- GEOMETRY:
- GEOGRAPHY:
- CHAPTER VII
- SEDULIUS:
- JOHANNES SCOTUS ERIUGENA (d. 877 A.D.):
- INFLUENCE OF IRISH SCHOLARSHIP:
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- FOOTNOTES:
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