Monastery & High Cross

Product Description

• Discover the Forgotten Eastern Roots of Irish Christianity
• Reviews scholarship on the connection of Ireland & the Mediterranean
• Fascinating connections that influenced Irish Christianity

Product Details

Monastery and High Cross: The Forgotten Eastern Roots of Irish Christianity explores the Egyptian threads in ancient Ireland. Written by Connie Marshner, Monastery and High Cross looks at the beginning of Celtic scholarship in English that included mentions of Egyptians in ancient Ireland. However, allusion to “seven Egyptian monks in Desert Uilaidh” in the Litany of the Céile Dé from the seventh century Book of Leinster was dismissed as merely symbolic. But evidence continues to accumulate that connections with the Mediterranean in ancient Ireland were real.

Reviewing archaeology documents, Monastery and High Cross concludes that frequent commerce between Ireland and the whole Mediterranean world from prehistory forward is true. Over the years, more and more similarities, links, and borrowings between ancient Ireland and the East have been found in art, architecture, literature, and liturgy, hymnody, and monastic custom. Examining the art in the Book of Kells, with some passages in the Antiphonary of Bangor and images on Irish high crosses, Monastery and High Cross clearly shows that there are parallels too close and too frequent and accidental to be. Monastery and High Cross is a cross-disciplinary meta-analysis of English-language research into these questions over the last one hundred and sixty years. Monastery and High Cross reviews scholarship in history, art, architecture, monastic traditions, liturgical and literary allusions, and assembles a comprehensive and thought-provoking collection of evidence.

Dimensions & Specifications

• Monastery and High Cross: The Forgotten Eastern Roots of Irish Christianity
• Paperback
• 240 pages
• Measures 5-1/2”W x 8-1/2”H
• Written by Connie Marshner

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