Isle of the saints
Subtitle: monastic settlement and Christian community in early Ireland
By: Lisa M. Bitel.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders -- Ireland -- History; Ireland -- Church history -- 600-1500
Description: "This book uses Irish hagiography to explain the monastic world, focusing on the major monasteries that produced the 'vitae'. It examines the relationships among saints, monks, and lay people, and the monastic interpretations of those relationships. If it sometimes mixes historical reality with monastic perceptions, then it successfully straddles the most forbidding boundary of all: the great chasm between our world and that of the Middle Ages." -- Preface.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-261) and indexes.