Corning, Caitlin.

The Celtic and Roman traditions : conflict and consensus in the early medieval church / Caitlin Corning. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. - xiii, 258 p. : illus., maps ; hardcover ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-250) and index.

1. Introduction --
2. Columbanus and the Merovingian church --
3. Columbanian monasticism after 615 AD --
4. The British church and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to c.620 --
5. The Irish church to 640 --
6. The Irish church after 640 --
7. Ionia and Northumbria, 634-635 --
8. Northumbria and Anglo-Saxon England, 665-735 --
9. Iona, the Picts, and the British --
10. Conclusion --
Appendix: Easter dates.

This book is a new survey of the Celtic and Roman traditions in Merovingian Gaul, Lombard Italy, and the British Isles from 590-768. In it Corning argues that the main areas of conflict between the two traditions during this period were the Easter controversy and by extension the style of tonsure. Corning?s work serves as a valuable case study of the ways in which the early medieval Church attempted to reach consensus on divisive issues.

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Celtic Church.
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Church controversies--History--Europe--To 1500.

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