From the Classics of Western Spirituality series, this volume will be of interest to scholars as well as recreational readers. It offers translations of numerous texts from the 6th-13th centuries, in a cross-section of genres and forms, including saints' lives, monastic texts, poetry, devotional texts, liturgical texts, apocrypha, exegetical texts, and theological treatises. Davies carefully explains the Celtic emphasis on oral tradition, the importance of place, emphasis on environment and animals, and the role of the imagination.