The Story of Iona: An illustrated history and guide

The Story of Iona: An illustrated history and guide
ISBN-10
184825556X
ISBN-13
9781848255562
Category
Religion
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2013-12-12
Publisher
Canterbury Press
Author
Dr Rosemary Power

Description

Historian and Iona Community member Rosemary Power tells the story of the small Hebridean island of Iona and its remarkable spiritual influence over fifteen centuries. Beginning with the earliest Stone Age settlements, she combines new translations of early Gaelic and medieval Latin prayers with original research to chart: the founding of the abbey in 563ADsix centuries of monasticism: food, lifestyle, work and the pattern of daily prayerarchitecture, the high crosses and early artmedieval Iona: the nunnery, women’s lives, and catering for pilgrimspost Reformation Iona: the rebuilding of the Abbey, the lives of the resident population and what visitors from the 17th century onwards experienced

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