Browse Items (51 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: Protestant critique Previous Page Page of 6 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "Such dismal and loansom Places are very apt to make frightful and melancholy Impessions upon the Minds for Weak and Ignorant" A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: approach, bogland, eighteenth century, inaccessibility, John Richardson, mountains, Protestant critique, roads, rocks, terrain, wildness "Surrounded by Wild and Barren Mountains" A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: devotional activities, dimensions, eighteenth century, John Richardson, Protestant critique, relics, remoteness, stone, superstition, wildness "The lake itself changes its wonted blue into a dull brown colour" Knox observes a change in the weather Tags: colour, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Travelogue, water, waves, weather "The pilgrims throng the shore opposite to the island" Knox describes the practices of the pilgrimage as he has heard them Tags: crowds, ferry house, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, Protestant critique, Travelogue "The unbroken stillness of this consecrated spot, was exchanged to bustle, noise, and jarring, of a countless multitude" Knox reflects on the recent Catholic activities on the land under his feet Tags: Catholicism, James Spencer Knox, juxtaposition, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Protestantism, sectarianism, temporality, Travelogue "There is a pool or lake saith he in the parts of Ulster that invironeth an Island" "I think it good to begin with St Patrick his Purgatory, partly because it is most notoriously known and partly the more that some writers as the author of Polychronicon and other, that were miscarried by him, seem to make a great doubt where they… Tags: Gerald of Wales, Isle of Demons, lake, Polychronicon, Protestant critique, purgatory, Ranulph Higden, Raphael Holinshed, Shane Leslie, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, Station Island, superstition "They would make a Jonas of me against my will" Knox reasons that the boatmen would prefer that the monster eat the heretic reverend rather than them Tags: elitism, James Spencer Knox, monster, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, sectarianism, serpent, superstition, Travelogue "What we saw was the great serpent or fish" Knox describes the fear of his Irish boatmen at the appearance of a lake monster, which he sees as a rock just above the waterline Tags: elitism, Folklore, James Spencer Knox, lake, monster, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, rock, serpent, superstition, Travelogue "When any Superstitious Place is defaced or demolished, they repair it" A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: Catholicism, eighteenth century, John Richardson, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, superstition A Map of the Island of Purgatory Map from a critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: eighteenth century, etching, John Richardson, Lough Derg, Map, morality, Protestant critique, Station Island, treatise Previous Page Page of 6 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
