Catherine Swift
@bewattled.bsky.social
Medievalist based in Limerick with interests in Ireland and the Irish church in a European context - St Patrick through to King John and all folk in between.
Lecture in TCD 6th Feb at 7:30 on Brigit’s early female followers and how they may have reconciled their Christian ideals with the prevailing norms of Irish society (and what that says about adoption and adaption of wider European ideas).
January 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Lecture in TCD 6th Feb at 7:30 on Brigit’s early female followers and how they may have reconciled their Christian ideals with the prevailing norms of Irish society (and what that says about adoption and adaption of wider European ideas).
Other scholars have understood it as Norse name AKI I think -check Barnes in the Nat Museum series (am in Bologna admiring 13thC monuments to university professors at the moment… 😂)
December 11, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Other scholars have understood it as Norse name AKI I think -check Barnes in the Nat Museum series (am in Bologna admiring 13thC monuments to university professors at the moment… 😂)