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

Moorhouse, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156006022 ISBN 13: 9780156006026

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin, 1999

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Book by Moorhouse Geoffrey

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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

Reseña del editor:

An exploration of the unique nature of Celtic Christianity discusses the medieval monks who lived a life of isolation and intense burning faith in their Skelling Islands monastery off Ireland's west coast, placing their practices in a fascinating historical context. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0156006022
• ISBN 13: 9780156006026
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 298