A Social History of Ancient Ireland: Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law ; Religion, Learning, and Art ; Trades, Industries, and Commerce ; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People, Volume 1 (Google eBook)

Patrick Weston Joyce

and Bombay, Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - Ireland

Contents

• CHAPTER I: 3
• Warfare: 7
• CHAPTER II: 27
• CHAPTER V: 155
• CHAPTER VI: 168
• CHAPTER VII: 184
• CHAPTER VIII: 198
• PART II: 217
• CHAPTER IX: 219
• PoInts of Agreement and DIfference between IrIsh and GaulIsh DruIds: 238
• Sorcerers and Sorcery: 240
• Gods GoblIns and Phantoms: 248
• WorshIp of Idols: 274
• Human SacrIfIce: 281
• WorshIp of Weapons: 286
• Worsh1p of the Elements: 288
• The Pagan Heaven and a Future State: 293
• TurnIng DeIsIol or SunwIse: 301
• The Ordeal: 302
• Preference for certaIn Numbers: 307
• The EvIl Eye: 309
• Geasa or ProhIbItIons: 310
• CHAPTER X: 313
• Three Orders of IrIsh SaInts: 317
• PatrIcIan Secular Clergy: 319
• MonastIc Clergy: 322
• AnchorItes or HermIts and HermIt CommunItIes: 348
• BuIldIngs and other Mater1al RequIsItes: 354
• Revenue and Means of Support: 378
• VarIous Features of the AncIent IrIsh Church: 382
• Popular RelIgIous Ideas: 391
• LearnIng and EducatIon: 396
• CHAPTER XII: 471
• CHAPTER XIII: 500
• CHAPTER XV: 531
• Art: 544
• CHAPTER XVII: 571
• CHAPTER XVIII: 597

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Social History of Ancient Ireland: Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law ; Religion, Learning, and Art ; Trades, Industries, and Commerce ; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People, Volume 1; A Social History of Ancient Ireland: Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law ; Religion, Learning, and Art ; Trades, Industries, and Commerce ; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People, Patrick Weston Joyce
• Author: Patrick Weston Joyce
• Publisher: and Bombay, Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Apr 9, 2008