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Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World Hardcover - 1997

by Geoffrey Moorhouse


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Combining narrative re-creations with scholarly reflections, Moorhouse brings to life the monks of the Skellig Islands and the spirituality of medieval Ireland in a “highly original, gracefully written” book (Boston Globe) that is “sure to fascinate lovers of Celtic history” (Boston Herald). A Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.

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Combining narrative re-creations with scholarly reflections, Moorhouse brings to life the monks of the Skellig Islands and the spirituality of medieval Ireland in a highly original, gracefully written book (Boston Globe) that is sure to fascinate lovers of Celtic history (Boston Herald). A Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.
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  • Title Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World
  • Author Geoffrey Moorhouse
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin, New York
  • Date 1997-09-15
  • ISBN 9780151002771 / 0151002770
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.14 x 1.02 in (22.91 x 15.60 x 2.59 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Middle Ages - Fiction, Ireland - Civilization
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97008748
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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"Geoffrey Moorhouse has taken his fascination with the Skellig Islands and created from it a unique work. . . . Its distinctive combination of documentary fiction and engrossing scholarship will compel many readers."-Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List and The Great Shame
"Highly original, gracefully written, and carefully researched . . . Moorhouse can go deep, and his scholarship is impressive."-The Boston Globe
"Moorhouse writes with eloquence and a quiet humor calculated to charm even the blackest of heathens."-The Atlantic Monthly

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