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title: "Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World"
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# Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World

**Brand:** geoffrey moorhouse
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- **What is this?** Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World by geoffrey moorhouse
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Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Highly entertaining and a good read
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2010*

Anyone who visits Ireland's haunting Skellig Islands asks themselves the same question: What have life must have been like for the incredibly dedicated monks who, for hundreds of years, inhabited one of the most isolated, forbidding, harshest, difficult places on earth?Moorhouse answers this question well with a brilliantly conceived historical novel, which explores not only how these men lived, but also why they chose such a difficult life. The picture Moorhouse paints of daily life is detailed and, one has to conclude, highly accurate.  Even more moving, though, are the characters he develops and the insights into what must have been in the minds of men who sacrificed all for a faith that was tested 24 hours a day.Unlike many historical novels, Sun Dancing is not overly simplistic, its characters are not flat and transparent. What could possibly drive men to survive near starvation, Viking raids, a brutal climate, and isolation that would drive many mad? Read this book, and you will begin to understand.It is not a book about Ireland; it is a book about what human beings will do--and endure--in the name of their faith.  Highly recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Irish Monasticism, Shaping A Nation
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2010*

Who would ever connect the title SUN DANCING  with Irish Monasticism lived out on what has the be one of the bleakest, most forbidding islands in the world?  The book is a riveting story of how monks  lived on that island and the scholarly evidence to prove that the story is pretty much what happened at that time.  It was a much more severe type of monasticism that developed independently of traditional Western monasticism based on the Rule of St. Benedict.A must read for those looking for heroes that live by deep faith.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An enjoyable read
  

*by M***H on Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2014*

I picked up this book in the spirit of an upcoming visit to the country of Ireland. The first half of the book are short stories of the monks at various time periods on the Skellig itself. These stories are ones that may have happened, but are not entirely factual. The second half goes into the evidence that we have about life on the Skellig portrayed in the first part. Though the book was an enjoyable read, I do feel the format would have been better, if a story was then broken up by a chapter with the facts. This way the historical evidence spoke about in chapter 2 does not come several chapters later. Overall, it did give me an appreciation of medieval life on the Skellig/Monastic life in Ireland of the time. I hope to visit Skellig Micheal soon!

## Frequently Bought Together

- Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World
- Early Ireland: An Introduction to Irish Prehistory
- CELTIC HERITAGE PA

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