Irish Hagiographical Lives in the Twelfth Century: Church Reform before the Anglo-Norman Invasion

The medieval Church viewed itself as Defender of the Faith, the destroyer of the unbelievers, the wrong believers. These heretics were to be reviled and feared as perverters of God’s word. The perverters of orthodoxy were, ultimately, not to be distinguished from one another, but rather known by catchphrases.

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