Author: Robert Alexander Stewart MacalisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum
Author: Robert Alexander Stewart MacalisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Author: The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Journal
Author: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Journal
Author: Royal Society of Antiquaries of IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Pilgrimage in Ireland
Author: Peter HarbisonPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815603122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The landscape of Ireland is rich with ancient carved stone crosses, tomb-shrines, Romanesque churches, round towers, sundials, beehive huts, Ogham stones and other monuments, many of them dating from before the 12th century. The purpose and function of these artifacts have often been the subject of much debate. Peter Harbison proposes in this book a radical hypothesis: that a great many of these relics can be explained in terms of ecclesiastical pilgrimage. He has constructed a fascination theory about the palace of pilgrimage in the early Christian period, placing it right at the center of communal life. The monuments themselves make much better sense if it looked at in this light—as having come into existence not through the practices of ascetic monks but because of the activities of pilgrims. He begins by searching the historical sources in detail for evidence of early pilgrimage sites. By examining their monuments he projects the findings to other locations where pilgrimage has not been documented. He goes on to describe monument-types of every kind and to identify pilgrims in sculpture surviving from before AD 1200. The Dingle Peninsula in Kerry proves to be a microcosm of pilgrimage monuments, enabling the author to reconstruct a tradition of maritime pilgrimage activity up and down the west coast of Ireland. Indeed, the famous medieval traveler's tale of the fabulous voyage of the St Brendan the Navigator can now be seen as the literary expression of a longstanding maritime pilgrimage along the Atlantic seaways of Ireland and Scotland, reaching Iceland, Greenland, and even North America.
Publications
Author: Folklore Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
An Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Bibliography (450-1087).
Author: Wilfrid BonserPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Folklore
Author: Joseph JacobsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.