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Lisa M. Bitel

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I am a recovering academic, medievalist, Celticist, and budding novelist. Few things make me happier than an intellectually intriguing historical or historal-fantasy novel with vivid landscapes and characters that you wish were you.

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	Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland 3.76 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100 3.69 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Otherworld: Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1990 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives (The Middle Ages Series) by Lisa M. Bitel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Felice Lifshitz (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Lady of the Rock: Vision and Pilgrimage in the Mojave Desert by Lisa M. Bitel (Goodreads Author), Matt Gainer (Photographs) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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