MONASTIC LIFE AND ‘SPACE SYNTAX’
‘Architecture is what you do to a building when you look at it.’ (Walt Whitman) In this blog I want[…]
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At the World’s End – Where was Iona in the seventh century?
Earlier this month I was on Mull with my family, and happened to climb up the magnificent hill called Bearraich[…]
Read moreThe ‘Iona Psalter’ – probably
In the National Library of Scotland there is a manuscript with the pleasingly rounded shelf-mark NLS MS 10000. It is[…]
Read moreThe Benedictine Shift
In this month’s blog I would like to explore a ‘factoid’ – a commonly held view which is not entirely[…]
Read moreÍ > IOUA > IONA
Of all the place-names associated with the island of Iona, perhaps the one that has given rise to the most[…]
Read moreAn Eala: more ‘processional archaeology’
An Eala: further evidence of the medieval ritual landscape One of the things that I was pleased to have a[…]
Read moreCnoc Angel – articulating a ritual landsdcape
In our blog for September, Sofia Evemalm-Graham reflected on some of the names attached to the hill called Sìthean Mòr.[1] […]
Read moreHow to arrange your Corpses
How to arrange your corpses: Saint Odrán and the replication of Iona’s Landscape Gilbert Márkus In the twelfth-century Irish ‘Life[…]
Read moreLatin and Gaelic in the early monastery: detecting a dialect-shift?
There is a problem with looking at very early sources for evidence of Iona place-names. Well there are several, but[…]
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