Landscape with Two Saints
How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe
1st Edition
Published on 19. May 2009
316 pages
978-0-19-971439-1 (ISBN)
Description
Lisa Bitel uses the history of two unique holy women--Genovefa of Paris (ca. 420-509) and Brigit of Kildare (ca.452-524)--to reveal how ordinary Europeans lived through Christianization at the dawn of the Middle Ages. Most converts did not have a sudden epiphany, Bitel argues. Instead they learned and lived their new religion in continuous conversation with preachers, saints, rulers, and neighbors. Together, they built their faith over many years, brick by brick, into their churches and shrines, cemeteries, houses, and even their markets and farms.
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Lisa M. Bitel
Landscape with Two Saints
How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe
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06/2009
Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: The Journey to Brigit's Well
- 1. Paris before Genovefa: The Landscape Enters History
- 2. Sacral Paris
- 3. Genovefa's Territory
- 4. Paris after Genovefa
- 5. Crossings and Conversions
- 6. Ekphrasis at Kildare
- 7. Brigit Goes to Ground
- 8. Relics
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
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- I
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