More Shopping OptionsThis 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.
Caitlin Corning is Professor of History, George Fox University.
"What were the issues that led to the Celtic Church's eventual demise as it was absorbed into the Church universal? Caitlin Corning, Professor of History at George Fox University, turns her considerable analytical skills toward answering this question . . . Corning has done a superlative job of making understandable one of the most bewildering, and apparently divisive, theological issues of the Middle Ages."
--Christian Scholar's Review
"The author has taken on a formidable task, and executed it extremely well. This book deserves to be weidely read. An essential introduction to its topic, it engages energetically with current scholarship and contains much that is original. It is sure to stimulate further debate and research." --Kaarina Hollo, Universities of Cambridge and Sheffield
Introduction * Columbanus and the Merovingian Church * Columbanian Monasticism after 615 AD* The British Church and the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms to c.620 * The Irish Church to 640 * The Irish Church after 640 * Iona and Northumbria, (634-665) * Northumbrian and Anglo-Saxon England (665-735) * Iona, the Picts, and the British * Conclusion
