Monastica
by Zimmerl-Panagl, Victoria, Zelzer, Michaela
fromCorpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
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"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 histori…
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 perspective, the social networks th…
"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 histori…
This is a study of the history and documentary records of one of Ireland's most important early monastic communities, the familia of St Columba, between the sixth and twelfth centuries. The federation of Columban, monasteries left three major hagiographical works: the Vita Colum…
"Reforms of Christian Life presents a new narrative of the role of the Barnabites and Angelics, the Ursulines and the Somascans (founded in northern Italy in the 1530s by Battista da Crema, Angela Merici and Girolamo Miani) within sixteenth-century Italian reforming movements. R…
