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288 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801424717
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 16 October 1990
Description
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 per...
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288 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801424717
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 16 October 1990
Description
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 per...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings