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Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland
Lisa M. Bitel
Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland
Lisa M. Bitel
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...
288 pages, 10 halftones, 4 maps
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 16, 1990 |
ISBN13 | 9780801424717 |
Publishers | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 27 mm · 907 g |