Author: Bitel, Lisa M.
Title: Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1990). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xvi,268 pp. Textual maps & tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Saints & the Sources; Settlement: Monastic Settlement; The Monastic Enclosure; The Community: The Monastic Family; Clientship & the Division of Labor; Saints, Kings, & Social Order; Spirituales medici; The Politics of Hospitality; Exile & Pilgrimage; Epilogue; Appendices.

Keywords: Medieval History, Ireland, Monastic Orders, Christianity, Church, Monasticism, Religious Order, Religion, Christian