Sun Dancing Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World

Name: Sun Dancing Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World
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ISBN: 9780156006026

ISBN-10: 0156006022

ISBN-13: 9780156006026

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Authors: Geoffrey Moorhouse

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Visible on a clear day off the west coast of Ireland, the Skellig Islands, a cluster of cruel rocks, rise spectacularly from the Atlantic Ocean. A sanctuary to birds and seals today, for over six hundred years during the middle ages it was a center for a particularly intense form of monastic life, one that acclaimed writer Geoffrey Moorhouse explores with utmost fascination, scholarship, and imagination in Sun Dancing. A must read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Celtic spirituality, Moorhouse's lively narrative is a superbly imagined account of the monks' isolated life-the spiritual struggles and triumphs and unbelievable physical hardships. To complement and enrich the book,…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 3/11/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Author's Note



The Tradition



AD 588



AD 670



AD 780



AD 824



AD 950



AD 1044



AD 1222



The Evidence


Fionan


Peregrinatio


Pagans and Christians


St. Patrick


Brendan the Navigator


Irish Monasticism


Book Illustration


The Scoti


Antony and Cassian


The Desert Fathers


St. Antony in Art


The Irish Kings and Tara


Three Martyrdoms


The Curach


Fasting


Monastic Dress


The Gallican Creed


Skellig Michael


Nature Worship


The World View


The Buildings


Soul-friends


The Monastic Horarium


Cu Chulainn


Two Tonsures


The Synod of Whitby


Columcille and Iona


Mingled Traditions


Monastic Feuds


Penance


Sin


Poverty and Sickness


The Vikings


Celtic Metalwork


Skellig Birdlife


The Dancing Sun


The Irish Annals


Brian Boru


Olaf Tryggvason


The Culdees


Giraldus Cambrensis


The Hermitage


Origen


The Bestiaries


Hubris


The Withdrawal


St. Benedict's Rule


Ballinskelligs and the Arroasians


Unanswered Questions


A Bibliography