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The story of Iona : Columban and medieval sites and spirituality
- Title
- The story of Iona : Columban and medieval sites and spirituality / Rosemary Power.
- Author
- Power, Rosemary
- Publication
- Norwich : Canterbury Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DA880.I7 .P694 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 146 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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 563 A.D. and six centuries of monasticism; food, lifestyle, work and the pattern of daily prayer architecture; the high crosses and early art, medieval Iona: the nunnery, women's lives, and catering for pilgrims; post-Reformation Iona: the rebuilding of the Abbey, the lives of the resident population and what visitors from the 17th century onwards experienced.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Church history.
- History.
- Note
- Beginning with the earliest Stone Age settlements, Powers combines new translations of early Gaelic and medieval Latin prayers with original research to chart: the founding of the abbey in 563 A. D. and six centuries of monasticism; food, lifestyle, work and the pattern of daily prayer architecture; the high crosses and early art, medieval Iona: the nunnery, women's lives, and catering for pilgrims; post-Reformation Iona: the rebuilding of the Abbey, the lives of the resident population and what visitors from the 17th century onwards experienced.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. One Columban Iona -- 1. Iona Before Columba -- 2. To 597: Columba's Iona -- 3. To 697: An Age of Writing -- 4. To 797: A Century of Art -- 5. To 897: A Century of Disruption -- 6. To 997: A Time of Decline? -- 7. To 1098: Renewal and Refocus -- 8. To 1203: The Winds of Change -- pt. Two Medieval Iona -- 9. The Benedictine Abbey -- 10. The Augustinian Nunnery -- pt. Three Afterword.
- ISBN
- 9781848255562
- 184825556X
- OCLC
- ocn869524730
- 869524730
- SCSB-1761212
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library