Author: Royal Society of Antiquaries of IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clare (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Illustrated Guide to the Northern, Western, and Southern Islands, and Coast of Ireland
Author: Royal Society of Antiquaries of IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clare (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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.
The Early Development of Irish Society: the Evidence of Aerial Photography
Author: Edward R. NormanPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island
Author: Barbara FreitagPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401209103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next six hundred years inspired enterprising seafarers to sail across the Atlantic in search of it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. While English writers envisioned the island as a place of commercial and colonial interest, artists and poets in Ireland fashioned it into a fairyland of Celtic lore. This pioneering study first traces the cartographic history of Brasil Island and examines its impact on English maritime exploration and literature. It investigates the Gaelicization process that the island underwent in nineteenth century and how it became associated with St Brendan. Finally, it pursues the Brasil Island trope in modern literature, the arts and popular culture.
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: Cambridge University Reporter
Author: University of CambridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibraryBradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia
Author: George BradshawThe Early Christian Cross Slabs, Pillar Stones and Related Monuments of County Galway, Ireland
Author: J. G. HigginsPublisher: British Archaeological Association
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407388618 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407389745 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860544838 (Volume set).
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Author: George Bradshaw