1 Cloud-Cuckoo Land? Some Christian Symbols from Post-Roman Britain&Susan Youngs 1
2 Columbanus’s Monasticism and the Sources of his Inspiration:From Basil to the Master?&Clare Stancliffe 17
3 Early Irish Priests within their Own Localities&Catherine Swift 29
4 Political Organisation in Dal Riata&David N.Dumville 41
5 Irish Boundary Ferta, their Physical Manifestation and Historical Context&Elizabeth O’Brien and Edel Bhreathnach 53
6 Asser’s Parochia of Exeter&O.J.Padel 65
7 Viking-Age Sculpture in North-West Wales: Wealth, Power, Patronage and the Christian Landscape&Nancy Edwards 73
8 Iona v.Kells: Succession, Jurisdiction and Politics in the Columban Familia in the Later Tenth Century&Thomas Owen Clancy 89
9 A Twelfth-Century Indulgence Granted by an Irish Bishop at Bath Priory&Marie Therese Flanagan 103
10 Gerald of Wales, Gildas, and the Descriptio Kambriae&Huw Pryce 115
11 Patrick’s Reasons for Leaving Britain&Roy Flechner 125
12 Learning Law in Medieval Ireland&Robin Chapman Stacey 135
13 Holding Court: Judicial Presidency in Brittany, Wales and Northern Iberia in the Early Middle Ages&Wendy Davies 145
14 The lorwerth Triads&Sara Elin Roberts 155
15 The Recovery of Stolen Property: Notes on Legal Procedure in Gaelic Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man&Fergus Kelly 165
16 Contentious Kinship: The Penumbra of Established Kinship in Medieval Irish Law&Bronagh Ni Chonaill 173
17 Marriage by Purchase in Early Irish Law&Charlene M.Eska 183
18 Kingship Made Real? Power and the Public World in Longes Mac nUislenn&Elva Johnston 193
19 Mongan’s Metamorphosis: Compert Mongain ocus Serc Duibe Lacha do Mongan, a Later Mongan Tale&Maire Ni Mhaonaigh 207
Bibliography of the Writings of Thomas Charles-Edwards&Maredudd ap Huw 217
Index 225
Tabula Gratulatoria 237