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Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World Paperback - 1999
by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Summary
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, Moorhouse establishes the historical context of Irish monasticism and describes the monks' influence and undeniable role in preserving western civilization, as well as unexpected connections between medieval Ireland and India, Egypt, and Byzantium, and the surviving impact of pagan mythology. An entertaining and enlightening work, Sun Dancing makes medieval Ireland come alive.
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The men at the oars moved as though they had all the time in the world at their disposal.
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- Title Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World
- Author Geoffrey Moorhouse
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Harvest Edit
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Paperbacks, New York
- Date 1999-03-11
- ISBN 9780156006026 / 0156006022
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.74 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 1.88 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: Ireland
- Ethnic Orientation: Irish
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"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
"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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