Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe Tapa dura - 2009

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Fine Clean First Edition Hardcover Near Fine Collectible Dust Jacket with only a hint of shelf wear in imperfection by publisher on bottom of cover. Minor. NOT a library copy. NO writing. This fine scholars study of St. Brigit of Kildare and St. Genovefa a Gaulish holy woman of Paris. This book among other things looks at these holy woman's relation to sacred landscape architecture. Great shape. See Three Geese in Flight Celtic Book Scans

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Hardback. New. At a time when Europeans still longed to be Roman and were just learning to be Christian, two extraordinary holy women-Genovefa of Paris (ca. 420-502) and Brigit of Kildare (ca. 450-524)-began to roam their homelands. One of these saints raised an apostolic church in the imperial city that would become Paris. The other scavenged fragments of that dwindling empire for the foundations of a grand Roman basilica built deep in barbarian territory. Both brought Christianity and romanitas (Roman-ness) to their people. By examining the ruins of their cities and churches, the workings of their cults, and the many generations of their devotees, Lisa Bitel shows how Brigit and Genovefa helped northern Europeans map new religion onto familiar landscapes. Landscape with Two Saints tells the twin stories of these charismatic women but also explains how ordinary people lived through religious change at the very beginning of the Middle Ages. Tales of ancient conversions on distant landscapes have… Leer más

Oxford Univ Pr, 2009. Hardcover. New. text is free of markings edition. 320 pages. 9.75x6.50x0.75 inches.