Isle of the Saints by Lisa M. Bitel

Isle of the Saints

Lisa M. Bitel

288 pages paperback 1990

3 editions

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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 per...

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