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9780752425719

Ireland's Round Towers

by O'Keeffe, Tadhg
  • ISBN13:

    9780752425719

  • ISBN10:

    0752425714

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-12-01
  • Publisher: Tempus
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Summary

The round tower is Ireland's most distinctive medieval monument. This book explores the towers' qualities as works of architecture as well as examining their relationships with other buildings at the sites on which they stand. The author suggests how the towers were employed in ceremonies and other ritualised activities of the Viking Age church in Ireland. They prove to be crucial evidence in a new history of Irish Christianity between the Viking raids and the late 12th-century invasion.

Author Biography

Tadhg O'Keeffe Lectures in Archaeology in University College Dublin.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
7(4)
Preface 11(4)
Annalists, antiquarians, nationalists: Round Towers in history
15(28)
The enduring template: Round Tower architecture and its chronology
43(50)
Bells, processions, deaths: Round Tower functions
93(24)
Where did the Round Tower idea come from?
117(16)
Some closing thoughts
133(4)
Gazetteer of Ireland's free-standing Round Towers 137(18)
List of abbreviations 155(1)
Further reading 156(2)
Index to sites 158

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