In Search of Ancient Ireland by McCaffrey Carmel & Eaton Leo

Author:McCaffrey, Carmel & Eaton, Leo [McCaffrey, Carmel]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781566635257
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 2003-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

Many early saints left Ireland altogether, settling on remote offshore islands or traveling to foreign lands. Sixth-century Ireland, still reeling from the aftereffects of climate disaster and plague, was birthing two very different monastic ideals that together would define the Irish church. One was the growth of wealthy centers of Christian power and scholarship big enough to be described as towns. The other was the desire for remote and desolate places— often outside Ireland—where holy saints could withdraw from the world to worship God in isolation. The creative pull between these two opposing forces would make the Irish church the powerhouse of all Christendom, carrying faith and scholarship back to a Europe recovering from its Dark Age. Whether in the great monastic settlements of Ireland's agricultural heartland, or perched on remote and inhospitable monastic islands far out into the Atlantic, the heart of this powerhouse was the scriptorium.

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