Title: Isle of the Saints
First published: 1990
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.
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders, Church history, History, Kloosterleven, Mönchtum, Ireland, church history, Monasticism and religious orders, ireland
Places: Ireland
Time periods: 600-1500
LC classification: BX2600 .B57 1990