Centre for Neo-Latin Studies

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Shane Lordan
PhD Candidate, School of History, UCC

Research Interests
  • Early Insular Latin literature and hagiography
  • Patristic studies
  • Ecclesiology
  • Papal Rome
  • The cult of relics
  • The works of Gregory of Tours
Forthcoming Publications
  • '"Sweeter than honey to the needy": the proverbial spoonful of sugar as the mark of a good teacher in the early Hiberno-Latin sources', The Imbas Journal 2 (2012)
  • 'Saints and the "city": episcopal relics and episcopal cults in the early Irish Church', in Y. Maury and C. Bousquet (eds), Sacred space, sacred memory: bishop-saints and their cities, Hagiologia 9 (Turnhout 2013)