Church and settlement in Ireland / James Lyttleton, Matthew Stout, editors.

Published in association with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement and the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Saint Patrick, the Church, and the Irish landscape / James G. Schryver -- Using aggregative statistical techniques from narratology to analyse textual stability in Irish saints' Lives, and the implications for dateability / Brian Ó Broin -- The material culture of ecclesiastical landholding in two study areas of early medieval Ireland / Gill Boazman -- Christianizing the landscape of Mag Réta: home territory of the kings of Laígis / Tomás Ó Carragáin -- Medieval Irish ecclesiastical fosterage / Lahney Preston-Matto -- The exclave parish and the geography of episcopacy in Ireland: 600 to 1300 / Paul MacCotter -- The mendicant orders in Ireland, thirteenth- sixteenth centuries / Annejulie Lafaye -- An archaeological exploration of nunneries in the medieval landscape of Ireland / Tracy Collins -- Mellifont Abbey's monastic estate in counties Meath and Louth (1540-1) / Geraldine Stout -- The 'mass rock' in eighteenth-century Ireland: the symbolic and historical past / David A. Fleming -- Mass-houses and meeting houses: Catholic and Presbyterian church design in eighteenth-century Ireland / Finbar McCormick.

This exciting new book features twelve essays from an international panel of experts on religious landscapes. They explore the dynamic relationship between settlement and the church, spanning the dawn of Christianity, the Middle Ages and the post-medieval eras.