Browse Items (23 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: James Spencer Knox Previous Page Page of 3 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "Multitudes of the lower classes of the native Irish" On the crowds of pilgrims travelling to the site and their motivations Tags: Catholicism, class, elitism, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Protestantism, Travelogue "I insisted that they should take me to an island" Knox wishes to visit an island in the upper lake Tags: boating, boatmen, elitism, islands, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Travelogue, upper lake "I had long experienced extreme anxiety to visit" Knox describes the circumstances of his arrival Tags: James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, rain, Station Island, Travelogue, weather "I gazed on the distant borders of the Lake" Knox muses on the link between agriculture and spiritual rectitude Tags: agriculture, cultivation, James Spencer Knox, morality, nineteenth century, parable, Protestant critique, Travelogue, upper lake "I at length reached the goal of my long-nourished desire" Knox describes the scene of crowds waiting to cross to Station Island Tags: boating, crowds, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, Protestant critique, Travelogue "He had swallowed up a very wicked man" Knox asks questions about the monster, which appears to devour sinners but largely emerges just above the water Tags: elitism, James Spencer Knox, mentalities, morality, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, sacrifice, sectarianism, superstition, Travelogue "An incredible quantity of rags" Knox describes the scattered bloodied rags showing traces of the bodily rigours of the pilgrimage Tags: austerity, embodied experience, injury, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, penitential beds, Protestant critique, rags, Travelogue "All was as still as death" Knox describes the deserted scene on Station Island Tags: emptiness, isolation, James Spencer Knox, landing, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, pilgrims, Protestant critique, Travelogue, women's history "A spreading hawthorn tree" Knox visits a lone tree on an island, a home of fairies in local folklore Tags: fairies, Folklore, Hawthorn, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Sidhe, Travelogue, tree "A rock, which, rising to the surface of the water, the breeze had exposed" Knox reveals that the "serpent" is a rock Tags: debunking, elitism, James Spencer Knox, negative description, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scientism, superstition, Travelogue Previous Page Page of 3 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
