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Sun Dancing: A Medieval Vision (Paperback)

by Geoffrey Moorhouse (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Phoenix; New edition edition (19 Jun 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0753801574
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753801574
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 494,159 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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An award winning travel writer constructs life on an Atlantic rock just off the Irish coast that for 600 years housed a medieval monstery. Some 8 miles into the Atlantic, off the coast of Kerry, 2 Great rocks rise sheer out of the sea about half a mile apart. These arethe Skelligs. The smaller houses the 2nd biggest gannet colony in the world; the larger, Skellig Michael, is very different: a place of mystery with considerable historical significance. Legend says that the Archangel Michael appeared to help St.Patrick rid Ireland of snakes and other vermin. For 600 years it accommodated a monastery. Sun Dancing tells the story of Skellig Michael,mixing history, first hand research, with descriptions of life there today.


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Geoffrey Moorhouse is 'one of the best writers of our time' (Byron Rogers, The Times), 'a brilliant historian' (Dirk Bogarde, Daily Telegraph) and 'a writer whose gifts are beyond category' (Jan Morris, Independent on Sunday). He is the author of eighteen books, which have won prizes and been translated into several languages. In 1982 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His To the Frontier won the Thomas Cook Award for the best travel book of its year in 1984. He has recently concentrated on Tudor history, notably with THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE and, in 2005, GREAT HARRY'S NAVY. He lives in a hill village in North Yorkshire.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Author inspired by mysterious Irish island, 23 Nov 1999
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This is a book about the rock of Skellig Mhichel, where between c500 and 1200AD Irish monks eked out a precarious existence. The author has covered the island's story in a number of chapters which are factional- he has imagined fictional situations and characters based on what little is known of the island from original sources. Other chapters give the facts about the island- about Celtic monasticism, the Anchorites and the island's wildlife etc. These can be read seperately or as footnotes to the fictional chapters. I enjoyed this book when I read it and it tries to capture the spirtuality of the monks, what they believed in, how they came to be on the rock and so on. The title is also explained in one of the chapters but I won't spoil the story for you! My favourite chapter dealt with the Culdee- a member of a strict 11th C order- who visits the island and sets himself up away from the monks. In his attempt to get closer to God he literally experiences a great fall.

Alex Drysdale

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sun Dancing, 3 Nov 2009
By D. Walter "Music Geezer" (Milton Keynes, England) - See all my reviews
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I heard of this book first from an audio book. I chose the book version which did not disapoint. It tells of the establishing of the monastery on top of a tall pillar of rock off the Kerry coast. The hardships endured and the characters which inhabited this small world cut off from civilization but for their supplies. It was a joy to read and to do some research about it myself on the internet. I have passed it on to a friend to read and pass on to others. After all isn't that what books are for?
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