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Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland
Lisa M. Bitel
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Description for Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBLC; HRCC1; HRCX8. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 457.
Isle of the Saints recreates the harsh yet richly spiritual world of medieval Irish monks on the Christian frontier of barbarian Europe. Lisa Bitel draws on accounts of saints' lives written between 800 and 1200 to explain, from the monks' own perspective, the social networks that bound them to one another and to their secular neighbors.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801481574
SKU
V9780801481574
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About Lisa M. Bitel
Lisa M. Bitel is Professor of History and Religion at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Land of Women, also from Cornell, as well as Landscape with Two Saints and Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400–1100.
Reviews for Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland
Bitel's book is exceptionally well researched and very well written. It sums up a huge amount of work done on Irish monasticism over the past fifty years.
Commonweal
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