"Based on an actual medieval pilgrimage route, this work traces a contemporary route from Dublin to Lough Derg, Donegal. It provides a cultural itinerary throug

The landscape of Ireland is rich with ancient carved stone crosses, tomb-shrines, Romanesque churches, round towers, sundials, beehive huts, Ogham stones and ot

This volume contains four Medieval texts and brings together all the major Middle English accounts of otherworld visions seen at St. Patrick's Purgatory, apart

Though our modern understanding of the medieval doctrine of Purgatory is generally shaped by its presentation by Dante in the Divine Comedy, there is a lengthy

Saint Patrick Retold draws on recent research to offer a fresh assessment of Patrick's travails and achievements. This is the first biography in nearly fifty ye