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Isle of the Saints
Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Lisa M. Bitel is Professor of History and Religion at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Land of Women, also from Cornell, as well as Landscape with Two Saints and Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400–1100.
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Bitel's book is exceptionally well researched and very well written. It sums up a huge amount of work done on Irish monasticism over the past fifty years.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Figures
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Preface
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Abbreviations
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Introduction. The Saints and the Sources
1 - PART ONE: SETTLEMENT
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Chapter 1. Monastic Settlement
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Chapter 2. The Monastic Enclosure
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Chapter 3. The Monastic Family
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Chapter 4. Clientship and the Division of Labor
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Chapter 5. Saints, Kings, and Social Order
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Chapter 6. Spirituales Medici
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Chapter 7. The Politics of Hospitality
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Chapter 8. Exile and Pilgrimage
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Epilogue
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Appendix A. Place Names
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Appendix B. Saints’ Names
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Selected Bibliography
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Subject Index
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Index of Proper Names and Places
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November 18, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781501711770
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Main content:
288
eBook ISBN:
9781501711770
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
