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A Rosslyn Treasury: Stories and Legends from Rosslyn Chapel (Paperback)

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Description


Rosslyn Chapel is situated eight miles south of Edinburgh and has captured the imagination of many in recent years, not least in Dan Brown's fiction. This extraordinary building, dating from the fifteenth century, has long been a place of pilgrimage for people with widely varying interests, whether historical, architectural, or spiritual.

For many years, Peter Snow has been gathering the stories as represented by the many carvings in and around the chapel building. Many of the carvings, eroded by the years or damaged by vandalism during the Reformation, have been lovingly restored over time and eloquently illustrate the biblical, historical, and legendary tales they represent.

This book traces themes of transformation and metamorphosis through inward endeavor and will fascinate anyone interested in stories from the world beginning, Ancient Egypt, the Holy Land, Celtic myth, and Celtic history.

About the Author


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.

Product Details
ISBN: 9780863157103
ISBN-10: 0863157106
Publisher: Floris Books
Publication Date: November 15th, 2009
Pages: 184
Language: English