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Isle of the Saints : Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland / Lisa M. Bitel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: �1994Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 10 halftones, 4 mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501711770
  • 1501711776
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 274.1501 20
LOC classification:
  • BX2600
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Saints and the Sources -- PART ONE: SETTLEMENT -- Chapter 1. Monastic Settlement -- Chapter 2. The Monastic Enclosure -- PART TWO: THE COMMUNITY -- Chapter 3. The Monastic Family -- Chapter 4. Clientship and the Division of Labor -- Chapter 5. Saints, Kings, and Social Order -- Chapter 6. Spirituales Medici -- Chapter 7. The Politics of Hospitality -- Chapter 8. Exile and Pilgrimage -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Place Names -- Appendix B. Saints' Names -- Selected Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index of Proper Names and Places
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Saints and the Sources -- PART ONE: SETTLEMENT -- Chapter 1. Monastic Settlement -- Chapter 2. The Monastic Enclosure -- PART TWO: THE COMMUNITY -- Chapter 3. The Monastic Family -- Chapter 4. Clientship and the Division of Labor -- Chapter 5. Saints, Kings, and Social Order -- Chapter 6. Spirituales Medici -- Chapter 7. The Politics of Hospitality -- Chapter 8. Exile and Pilgrimage -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Place Names -- Appendix B. Saints' Names -- Selected Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index of Proper Names and Places

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.

In English.

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