Author: Margaret StokesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Early Christian Architecture in Ireland
Author: Margaret StokesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Churches in Early Medieval Ireland
Author: Tomás Ó CarragáinPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This is the first book devoted to churches in Ireland dating from the arrival of Christianity in the fifth century to the early stages of the Romanesque around 1100, including those built to house treasures of the golden age of Irish art, such as the Book of Kells and the Ardagh chalice. � Carrag�in's comprehensive survey of the surviving examples forms the basis for a far-reaching analysis of why these buildings looked as they did, and what they meant in the context of early Irish society. � Carrag�in also identifies a clear political and ideological context for the first Romanesque churches in Ireland and shows that, to a considerable extent, the Irish Romanesque represents the perpetuation of a long-established architectural tradition.
Early Christian Ireland
Author: T. M. Charles-EdwardsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521363950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 729
Book Description
A fully documented history of Ireland and the Irish from the fifth to the ninth centuries.
Early Christian Ireland
Author: Eleanor HullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Modern Traveller to the Early Irish Church
Author: Kathleen HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The monastic sites of early Christian Ireland have always been an attraction to visitors. Now issued in a new edition, this book is intended for use by those who wish to understand the religious and secular life of early Ireland. The authors have used the site remains and historical source material to reconstruct the life of Irish monks and laymen from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Here the reader will find treatments of the function of monasteries in early Ireland, the daily life of their inhabitants, and the significance of their art and sculpture. The appendices include a county-by-county guide to the most interesting early Christian sites.
Early Christian art in Ireland
Author: Margaret MacNair StokesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Early Christian Symbolism in Great Britain and Ireland before the Thirteenth Century
Author: J. Romilly AllenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108082629
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This highly illustrated 1887 book offers a particular focus on the Celtic crosses of Ireland, and their sculptural symbolism.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology
Author: David K. PettegrewPublisher: Oxford Handbooks
ISBN: 0199369046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
"This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The 34 essays to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in the latest currents of archaeological method, theory, and research."--
Early Christian Art in Ireland
Author: Margaret StokesIf These Stones Could Talk
Author: Peter StanfordPublisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1529396441
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
'A heavenly book, elegant and thoughtful. Get one for yourself and one for the church-crawler in your life!' Lucy Worsley Christianity has been central to the lives of the people of Britain and Ireland for almost 2,000 years. It has given us laws, customs, traditions and our national character. From a persecuted minority in Roman Britannia through the 'golden age' of Anglo-Saxon monasticism, the devastating impact of the Vikings, the alliance of church and state after the Norman Conquest to the turmoil of the Reformation that saw the English monarch replace the Pope and the Puritan Commonwealth that replaced the king, it is a tangled, tumultuous story of faith and achievement, division and bloodshed. In If These Stones Could Talk Peter Stanford journeys through England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland to churches, abbeys, chapels and cathedrals, grand and humble, ruined and thriving, ancient and modern, to chronicle how a religion that began in the Middle East came to define our past and shape our present. In exploring the stories of these buildings that are still so much a part of the landscape, the details of their design, the treasured objects that are housed within them, the people who once stood in their pulpits and those who sat in their pews, he builds century by century the narrative of what Christianity has meant to the nations of the British Isles, how it is reflected in the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the sense it gives about who we are and how we live with each other. 'There is no better navigator through the space in which art, culture and spirituality meet than Peter Stanford' Cole Moreton, Independent on Sunday