This article highlights some of the historiographical trends over the past one hundred years in how the Irish diaspora in early medieval Europe has been studied. The role of the peregrini, the Irish monastic exiles who left Ireland for Britain and continental Europe from the sixth century onwards, has to some extent been marginal and tangential to the historiography of this island. Forms of modern ‘Irophobia’ in some scholarship have also led to an obfuscation of the early medieval religious and ethnic landscape by seeking to minimise Irish cultural influence. The article argues that by contextualising the phenomenon of Irish clerical exile in Europe within broader theological and comparative frameworks, further research in this field has the potential to clarify the influence of the Irish and to show how the experience of exile contributed to the formation of both Irish and European identities in the middle ages.

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爱尔兰史学中的一个空白：从 Eoin MacNeill 到爱尔兰及以后的剑桥历史的爱尔兰 peregrini

本文重点介绍了过去 100 年来研究中世纪早期欧洲爱尔兰侨民的一些史学趋势。的角色佩雷格里尼，从六世纪起离开爱尔兰前往不列颠和欧洲大陆的爱尔兰修道院流亡者，在某种程度上一直是该岛史学的边缘和切线。一些学术研究中的现代“仇视恐惧症”的形式也通过试图最小化爱尔兰文化的影响而导致对早期中世纪宗教和种族景观的混淆。文章认为，通过在更广泛的神学和比较框架内将爱尔兰神职人员流亡欧洲的现象背景化，该领域的进一步研究有可能阐明爱尔兰人的影响，并展示流亡经历如何促成两者的形成中世纪的爱尔兰和欧洲身份。