T M Charles-Edwards.

T M Charles-Edwards. Early Christian Ireland. fresh York: Cambridge University Pres 2000 Pp xix, 707 $6995 ISBN 0-521-36395-0

Cambridge University Pres has seen fit to ready this book on its dust jacket as "the first completely documented history of Ireland and the Irish between the fourth and ninth centuries AD...." Publishers' claims are apt to be somewhat grandiose, unless this one has near merit. Most historical surveys of Early Christian Ireland take as their latitude the period from the fifth to the twelfth centuries, still in so doing attend to leap over some of

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