The Frontiers of Paradise: Study of Monks and Monasteries
Pocketbok. The Harvill Press; . New edition edition (7 Mar. 1988) uppl. 1988. 224 sidor.
Mycket gott skick.
This book is a delight. It isn't , and makes no claims to be, a comprehensive study of monasticism. The subject is too vast and tangled for that so Levi opts to look at 'the most important historical turning-points' and I'm not sure if he manages that either. What it is is a ragbag of items loosely linked to a number of themes - an excuse for story telling, reflection and the quirkier parts of history.
He is always engaging and often charming (I especially enjoyed the elderly Carthusian miraculously cured in hospital being given a wigging by one of his seniors for not having his miracle at home).
