Graduate Student, History and Archives
UFF - Universidade Federal Fluminense, Departamento de História
Thesis Title: Taboos and Penitence: Christian Conversion and Popular Religiosity in Ireland between the sixth and the eighth centuries
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Elva Johnston
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About
I am a third year PhD student in the History department in UCD. My thesis title is: 'Taboos' and Penitence: Christian Conversion and 'Popular Religion' in Ireland between the 6th and 8th centuries.
The aim of this project is to analyse the Irish conversion process to Christianity during the High Middle Ages through a documentary corpus, the Irish Penitentials, which were little books listing sins and assigning penance written for the use of the confessor. Through these texts it is possible to identify what was persecuted, tolerated, accepted, obeyed and disobeyed by the Church and the Christians. Therefore the focus of this study is the product of this process of conversion which elaborated a particular Irish ‘popular religion’, resultant of the fusion of the incoming Christian precepts and the Irish pre-Christian ones, which became shared by all, clergy and lay.
This thesis is funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) and supported by UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland (HII)
Contact Information
| Homepage: | http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualiza |
| Address: | UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland |
| Telephone: |
01 716 4683 |
