Love Magic in Medieval Irish Penitentials, Law and Literature
I exemplify this striving for ‘neutral’ research in this study of love magic, which starts with a case study on an episode from the Life of Saint Brigit.
“Becoming Mary of the Gael”
This paper focused on the comparison of St. Brigit and the Virgin Mary in early Irish texts.
Brigit: Goddess, Saint, ‘Holy Woman,’ and Bone of Contention
Brigit1 and Patrick, two saints from the beginnings of Christianity in Ireland in the fifth century CE, retain their popularity with Catholic Christians to this day.
The Conversion to Christianity in Medieval Ireland: St. Patrick vs. St. Bridget
Both St. Bridget and St. Patrick are patron saints of Ireland, but each had very different methods of converting people to Christianity from paganism during medieval times in Ireland.
Continental Women Mystics and English Readers
In 1406 Sir Henry later Lord Fitzhugh, trusted servant of King Henry IV, visited Vadstena, the Bridgettine monastery for men and women in Sweden. Vadstena was the mother-house of the Order of the Most Holy Saviour and had been founded by the controversial continental mystic St Bridget of Sweden, who had died in 1373 and had been canonized in Fitzhugh was so impressed by what he saw that he gave one of his manors near Cambridge as the future site for an English Bridgettine foundation.