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Peter Harbison
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Syracuse University Press
Published
June 1995
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Peter Harbison
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Syracuse University Press
Published
June 1995
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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.
Author
Peter Harbison
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Published
June 1995
Weight
563g
Page Count
277
Dimensions
150 x 232 x 18 mm
ISBN
9780815603122
ISBN-10
0815603126
Eden Code
4488556
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Author/Creator: Peter Harbison
ISBN: 9780815603122
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date: June 1995
Weight: 563g
Dimensions: 150 x 232 x 18 mm
Eden Code: 4488556