TY - BOOK ID - 67098481 TI - The transformation of the Irish church in the twelfth century PY - 2010 VL - 29 SN - 02619865 SN - 9781843835974 1843835975 9781846159015 9786613584212 1280488980 1846159016 PB - Woodbridge: Boydell press, DB - UniCat KW - Church renewal KW - History KW - Ireland KW - Church history KW - Church renewal - Ireland - History - To 1500 KW - Irlande KW - Eglise KW - 12e siècle KW - Ireland - Church history - 600-1500 KW - Christianity KW - Church KW - Church reform KW - Reform of the church KW - Renewal of the church KW - Religious awakening KW - Renewal KW - Reform KW - European context. KW - Irish church and society. KW - Irish church. KW - clergy. KW - laity. KW - lay society. KW - obstacles. KW - reform ideology. KW - reform movements. KW - reformist clergy. KW - religious culture. KW - transformation. KW - twelfth century. KW - unexploited sources. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67098481 AB - The twelfth century saw a wide-ranging transformation of the Irish church, a regional manifestation of a wider pan-European reform movement. This book, the first to offer a full account of this change, moves away from the previous concentration on the restructuring of Irish dioceses and episcopal authority, and the introduction of Continental monastic observances, to widen the discussion. It charts changes in the religious culture experienced by the laity as well as the clergy and takes account of the particular Irish experience within the wider European context. The universal ideals that were defined with increasing clarity by Continental advocates of reform generated a series of initiatives from Irish churchmen aimed at disseminating reform ideology within clerical circles and transmitting it also to lay society, even if, as elsewhere, it often proved difficult to implement in practice. Whatever the obstacles faced by reformist clergy, their genuine concern to transform the Irish church and society cannot be doubted, and is attested in a range of hitherto unexploited sources this volume draws upon. Marie Therese Flanagan is Professor of Medieval History at the Queen's University of Belfast. ER -