Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early IrelandIsle 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. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION The Saints and the Sources I | 1 |
SETTLEMENT | 15 |
Monastic Settlement | 17 |
The Monastic Enclosure | 57 |
THE COMMUNITY | 83 |
The Monastic Family | 85 |
Clientship and the Division of Labor IIS CHAPTER 5 Saints Kings and Social Order | 145 |
Spirituales Medici | 173 |
The Politics of Hospitality | 194 |
Exile and Pilgrimage | 222 |
Epilogue | 235 |
APPENDIX A Place Names | 245 |
APPENDIX B Saints Names | 247 |
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