Isle of the Saints

Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland

Lisa M Bitel author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Published:16th Oct '90

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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.

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.

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ISBN: 9780801424717

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm

Weight: 907g

288 pages