Isle of the Saints : : Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland / / Lisa M. Bitel.
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 th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 halftones, 4 maps |
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Table of 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