Isle of the Saints

Isle of the Saints
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9781501711770
ISBN-13 : 1501711776
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Book Synopsis Isle of the Saints by : Lisa M. Bitel

Download or read book Isle of the Saints written by Lisa M. Bitel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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