Bibliography

Martin
Holland

5 publications between 2000 and 2010 indexed
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Holland, Martin, “Decreta of late eleventh-century Irish bishops-elect”, Peritia 21 (2010): 233–254.
Holland, Martin, “The synod of Kells in MS BL, Add. 4783”, Peritia 19 (2005): 164–172.
Holland, Martin, “On the dating of the Corpus Irish missal”, Peritia 15 (2001): 280–301.  
abstract:
The Corpus missal is important for an understanding of the Irish church on the eve of the twelfth-century reform. This paper seeks to support by other evidence the eleventh-century dating of Gwynn and others. Certain textual evidence indicates an early but ill-defined date. By reference to the chronological evolution of a particular liturgical practice a terminus post quem is determined. Then, by showing that this practice is out of line with an avowed aim of the twelfth-century reform and specifically contradicts what the reforming bishop Gille of Limerick prescribes, a terminus ante quem, is established.
abstract:
The Corpus missal is important for an understanding of the Irish church on the eve of the twelfth-century reform. This paper seeks to support by other evidence the eleventh-century dating of Gwynn and others. Certain textual evidence indicates an early but ill-defined date. By reference to the chronological evolution of a particular liturgical practice a terminus post quem is determined. Then, by showing that this practice is out of line with an avowed aim of the twelfth-century reform and specifically contradicts what the reforming bishop Gille of Limerick prescribes, a terminus ante quem, is established.
Holland, Martin, “Dublin and the reform of the Irish church: eleventh and twelfth centuries”, Peritia 14 (2000): 111–160.  
abstract:

This paper traces the complex and evolving relationship between Canterbury and the Irish church in the context of church reform in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the political attitudes and activities of the diocese of Dublin which aimed to be a metropolitan see with all Ireland as its province but under the primacy of Canterbury. It traces the role of the astute Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of Munster and of Ireland, in ecclesiastical politics and argues that the threat from the Canterbury-Dublin alliance and the urgings of Ua Briain brought a hitherto conservative Armagh over to the side of the reformers. This led to the creation of an Irish hierarchical and diocesan structure independent of Canterbury and ultimately to the absorption of Dublin into that structure, to the intense displeasure of Canterbury and contemporary English observers.

abstract:

This paper traces the complex and evolving relationship between Canterbury and the Irish church in the context of church reform in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the political attitudes and activities of the diocese of Dublin which aimed to be a metropolitan see with all Ireland as its province but under the primacy of Canterbury. It traces the role of the astute Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of Munster and of Ireland, in ecclesiastical politics and argues that the threat from the Canterbury-Dublin alliance and the urgings of Ua Briain brought a hitherto conservative Armagh over to the side of the reformers. This led to the creation of an Irish hierarchical and diocesan structure independent of Canterbury and ultimately to the absorption of Dublin into that structure, to the intense displeasure of Canterbury and contemporary English observers.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Holland, Martin, “Were early Irish church establishments under lay control?”, in: Damian Bracken, and Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel (eds), Ireland and Europe in the twelfth century: reform and renewal, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 128–142.