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Brigid Of Kildare (2010)

by Heather Terrell(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0345505123 (ISBN13: 9780345505125)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Ballantine Books

review 1: My goodness this book was far more than I expected it to be. Brilliantly well researched Historical Fiction on Ireland's first and only female Saint, Brigid. This book not only provides a very well written insight to post St Patrick's Ireland but to the process of conversion from a pagan country to a christian one. The secondary love for this book was the parallel story of the actual long lost Book of Kildare pre-dating the Book of Kells and throwing a beautiful Biblical Archaeology piece to this story line. The historian in me, the Archaeologist in me, the adventure seeker in me and the religious history lover were all pulled together in this book.
review 2: A book about finding lost manuscripts and unearthing secrets hidden for centuries is usually something ... moreI enjoy reading. I did like this book, but did not love it, and I can't really understand why. Perhaps it's because I always get mad when I read about how the early church decided what was "orthodox" or not, and how they used Christianity as a tool to gain and maintain power rather than as a way to show people how to live good, faithful lives serving their communities, and most of all how they reduced the role and importance of women to practically nothing. This story was supposed to show a victory of sorts against all those things I just described, but it still seemed to be a failure to me. less

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