
A Rosslyn Treasury
stories and legends from rosslyn chapel
$34.03
- Paperback
184 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2009
Summary
Unveiling Rosslyn Chapel: A Tapestry of Tales in Stone
Rosslyn Chapel, a captivating edifice south of Edinburgh, has ignited the curiosity of countless individuals. This remarkable 15th-century structure has served as a destination for those drawn to its historical, architectural, and spiritual significance.
P.L. Snow has dedicated years to collecting the narratives embodied within the intricate carvings that adorn the chapel’s interior and exterior. These carvings, often we…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780863157103 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0863157106 |
| Author: | P.L. Snow |
| Publisher: | Floris Books |
| Imprint: | Floris Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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Critics Review
‘Peter Snow opens up the spiritual treasury of Rosslyn as a medieval storybook for modern times. Eschewing pseudo history, he marries the stories and the symbols to delight and inspire.’ – Donald Smith, Director, Scottish Storytelling Centre ‘Through giving examples of recent and intersting discoveries about the chapel, Peter Snow points out that it is still ‘revealing its secrects’. With its mixture of tales and historical snippets I found A Rosslyn Treasury offered an interesting and entertaining way of learning a great deal about Rosslyn Chapel itself together with the symbology and meaning behind its many carvings.’ – Rosemary Usselman, New View ‘Rosslyn Chapel exerts an enduring fascination, drawing visitors from all over the world to a small building that one would image can hardly contain all the expectations of it. Yet despite the hype and nonsense, it retains its romance, this book may be a key as to why… Snow illustrates the story’s role as an act of pilgrimage’ – Northern Earth, issue 120 ‘The author suggest that this building needs to be understood at three levels: physical, spiritual and divine; this is the meaning of sacred art as a way of raising conciousness to the divine by means of physical manifestation’ – Scientific and Medical Network Review. Winter 2009⁄10 ‘Peter Snow’s Rosslyn Treasury picks up on the lore/legend theme in an eloquent celebration of Rosslyn as a place of story. Finely produced - and told - this is a testimony to the continuing power of legend.’ – Blethers , Scottish Storytelling Centre and Network
About The Author
P.L. Snow
P.L. Snow was born in 1950. He has been a barman, an office clerk, a warehouseman, a social worker, a goat-herd in Corsica and a psychiatric nurse, before becoming a teacher of English and Drama in the Rudolf Steiner School of Edinburgh. He is married with two grown-up children.
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