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By Hugh Graham
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The study examines the development and distinct character of Irish monastic schools before 900 AD, arguing they combined native Irish culture, Christian religion, and Graeco‑Roman learning. It surveys evidence for pre‑Christian intellectual traditions and the arrival of classical studies, describes monastic organization and the three central institutions—schoolroom, scriptorium, library—analyzes curriculum and teaching aims, situates these schools within the wider European educational context circa 650–900, and evaluates the scope and legacy of Irish scholarship in preserving and transmitting letters during the early medieval period.

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Title: The Early Irish Monastic Schools

Author: Hugh Graham

Release date: April 27, 2020 [eBook #61956]
Most recently updated: October 17, 2024

Language: English

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Transcriber’s Notes:

  • A number of obvious typos have been corrected. Except for these corrections, the spelling and punctuation of the book have not been changed.
  • In the source book there are 539 footnotes numbered by chapter, so that footnote number 1 is the first footnote in each chapter. In this e-book the footnotes and their markers have been renumbered from 1 to 539 thus giving each footnote a unique marker.
  • All the footnotes have been moved to the end of the book.
  • The cover image contains a photograph, taken by the transcriber, of the remains of one of the two round towers on the old monastic site of Clonmacnoise on the eastern bank of the River Shannon in County Offaly.

THE EARLY IRISH
MONASTIC SCHOOLS

THE
EARLY IRISH
MONASTIC SCHOOLS

A STUDY OF IRELAND’S CONTRIBUTION
TO EARLY MEDIEVAL CULTURE

BY

HUGH GRAHAM, M.A.

Professor of Education, College of St. Teresa,
Winona, Minnesota, U.S.A.

DUBLIN
THE TALBOT PRESS LIMITED
85 TALBOT STREET
1923

PRINTED IN IRELAND
AT
THE TALBOT PRESS
DUBLIN

TO
IRISH TEACHERS

WHO,
TRUE TO THE TRADITIONS OF THEIR RACE,
SERVE HUMANITY IN MANY LANDS
BY LIVES CONSECRATED TO
RELIGION AND LEARNING