Introduction MARK ATHERTON Part I Identities 1 Celtic Christianity: texts and representations OLIVER DAVIES 2 The Idea of the Celt JONATHAN WOODING 3 The 'pagan' and 'Christian' identities of the Irish female saint ELVA JOHNSTON 4 Saxon or Celt? Caedmon, The Seafarer, and the Irish tradition MARK ATHERTON Part II Theologies 5 'There is no resurrection where there is no earth.' Creation and resurrection as seen in early Welsh poetry A. M. ALLCHIN 6 Muirchu's theology of conversion in his Vita Patricii THOMAS O'LOUGHLIN 7 Incarnate glory: the spirituality of D. Gwenallt Jones DENSIL MORGAN 8 The natural world in early Irish Christianity: an ecological footnote MARY LOW