Sun Dancing A Vision of Medieval Ireland

"[H]e [Moorhouse] gives us seven episodes in the history of the monastery from its founding by Fionan, which he places in 588 (9 years before St. Augustine came to Canterbury), until 1222, when, probably because of the difficulty of survival in deteriorating weather conditions, the last monks returned to the mainland, where they found a new monastery....This is a marvelous book bringing together Moorhouse's proven talents as a recorder of travels, an historian and a first-class stylist. He provides insight into the lives and minds of those extraordinary men who went to live on what was for them the rim of the world."Moorhouse, Geoffrey is the author of 'Sun Dancing A Vision of Medieval Ireland', published 1999 under ISBN 9780156006026 and ISBN 0156006022.