出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：Little archaeological work has been undertaken on nunneries in later medieval Ireland as spaces of female spirituality. This is in part due to the fact that they are generally less well preserved than contemporary male monasteries. Even less research has been done on male or female monastic estates, their topography and the networks they represent. These estates are known to have existed from documentary sources and would have included a variety of land holdings, rights and benefi ces. Through the use of the nunnery of St Mary’s Timolin, Kildare, as a case study, this paper assesses its nunnery estate and concludes that, for the most part, it was a consolidated estate within easy reach of the nunnery itself. This desk-based study using historical evidence hopes to highlight the archaeological research potential of fi eldwork on the Timolin holdings and the future potential to study other nunneries in this way.
关键词：nunnery;monastic estate;place name;archaeological monument;townland;spiritualities;temporalities;monasterio femenino;dominio monástico;nombre de lugar;monumento arqueológico;townland;espiritualidades;temporalidades
