The towering high cross of Muiredach
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Muiredach Master, Muiredach Cross, c. 923 C.E., sandstone, 18 feet high, Monasterboice (Mainistir Bhuithe), County Louth, Ireland
A conversation between Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Steven Zucker.
I'm living in Ireland for the past 23 years, and never been there. A lot to discover in Ireland. Beautiful Country & beautiful people. GOD Bless everyone. Greetings from Galway:
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The Italian guy... :-)
Thank you again for constantly providing us with these magnificent sights and monuments, let alone all the information alongside it.
One of the few items on this channel I’ve actually seen!! Monasterboice is a very cool place to visit, and it doesn’t take long to walk around and look at the gravestones and round tower after seeing the cross.
I always enjoy these moments.
Oh i just love this channel
You should go to see the lesser known Kilnasaggart Pillar Stone near Jonesborough. The oldest inscribed stone in Ireland - nobody goes to it. You have to walk through 3 fields to get to it. I only did it quite recently. Worth it.
Another wonderful video! I would argue that the capstone is a reliquary box perhaps meant to copy or refer to one housing the bones of the patron saint of the church or the holy man the cross is dedicated to.
They should make some sort of covering for it to protect it against the elements. But that might compromise its imposing presence. 🤔
Thank you!
lol. Poor Thomas. You question one, unlikely, miraculous thing and the "doubting" label follows you forever.
Anyway, I am impressed by the amount of detail that remains on these high crosses - including that little jerk demon kicking someone. 😂
The high cross monument began in Anglo-Saxon England. A life size replica of Muiredach's cross can be seen in the V and A museum in London
Yes, regarding the V&A. Origins however are disputed among scholars and the Northumbrian examples may have been the result of Irish missions, so a bit of nuance is critical here. In any case, both the British and the Irish would have looked to Rome and Jerusalem in any discussion of origin.
@@smarthistory-art-history Even if the earliest Northumbrian crosses are somehow derived from unattested Irish precedents, the intricate style of interlace/knotwork is neither Irish nor Roman nor Palestinian - it comes from Scandinavia and was brought to Britain and Ireland first by Anglo-Saxons and then later by Vikings. The "Celtic" version of the style is a synthesis of both mixed with Christian imagery.
Corrections: Jesus paid for all sin - not just original sin. Humans cannot pay for their own sins.