"Clonmacnoise was among the busiest, most economically complex, and intensely sacred places in early medieval Ireland. In Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise, John Soderberg argues that animals are the key to understanding Clonmacnoise's development as a thriving settlement and a sacred space"--.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Figures and Tables
• Introduction
• Chapter One Enclosure, Cattle, and Sanctuary Cities in Early Medieval Ireland
• Chapter Two Excavating Clonmacnoise
• Chapter Three Grounding the Archaeology of Religion
• Chapter Four Animals and the Rise of Clonmacnoise
• Chapter Five Animals, Tabernacles, and Towns
• Chapter Six The Animals of Clonmacnoise in a New Millennium
• Afterword
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author