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The Christianization of political discourse: reflections on the Irish evidence

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A wealth of political writings survives from early Christian Ireland. While traditionally this material has been understood in terms of a dichotomy between "pagan" and "Christian," recent scholarship has borrowed the category of the "secular" from late antique studies to make sense of early Irish intellectual culture and its political discourses. This article builds on this trend to reveal, through close examination of seventh-century Irish writings, a multitude of differently Christianized d...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1353/jla.2022.0026

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
History Faculty
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Author
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press Publisher's website
Journal:
Journal of Late Antiquity Journal website
Volume:
15
Issue:
2
Pages:
519-542
Publication date:
2022-11-11
Acceptance date:
2021-12-23
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EISSN:
1942-1273
ISSN:
1939-6716
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1228928
Local pid:
pubs:1228928
Deposit date:
2022-01-04

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