Isle of the Saints Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland

Lisa M. Bitel

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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.

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Cornell University Press

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ISBN:	9780801481574
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Pub date:	24 Feb 1994
Language:	English
Number of pages:	288
Weight:	454g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	21mm