An edition of Isle of the Saints (1990)
Isle of the saints
monastic settlement and Christian community in early Ireland
By Lisa M. Bitel
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Publish Date
1990
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Language
eng
Pages
268
Description:
"This book uses Irish hagiography to explain the monastic world, focusing on the major monasteries that produced the 'vitae'. It examines the relationships among saints, monks, and lay people, and the monastic interpretations of those relationships. If it sometimes mixes historical reality with monastic perceptions, then it successfully straddles the most forbidding boundary of all: the great chasm between our world and that of the Middle Ages." -- Preface.