TY - JOUR
T1 - Early Scottish Monasteries and Prehistory: A Preliminary Dialogue
AU - Carver, Martin
N1 - © 2010 Edinburgh University Press. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Scottish Historical Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self archiving policy.
PY - 2009/10
Y1 - 2009/10
N2 - Reflecting oil the diversity of monastic attributes found in the east and west of Britain, the author proposes that prehistoric ritual practice was influential on monastic form. An argument is advanced that this was not based solely oil inspiration Front the landscape, nor oil conservative tradition, but oil the intellectual reconciliation of Christian and non-Christian ideas, with disparate results that account. for the differences in monumentality. Among more general matters tentatively credited with a prehistoric root are the cult of relics, the tonsure and the date of Easter.
AB - Reflecting oil the diversity of monastic attributes found in the east and west of Britain, the author proposes that prehistoric ritual practice was influential on monastic form. An argument is advanced that this was not based solely oil inspiration Front the landscape, nor oil conservative tradition, but oil the intellectual reconciliation of Christian and non-Christian ideas, with disparate results that account. for the differences in monumentality. Among more general matters tentatively credited with a prehistoric root are the cult of relics, the tonsure and the date of Easter.
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U2 - 10.3366/E0036924109000894
DO - 10.3366/E0036924109000894
M3 - Article
SN - 0036-9241
VL - 88
SP - 332
EP - 351
JO - The Scottish Historical Review
JF - The Scottish Historical Review
IS - 226
ER -