This book provides a history of early medieval Milan that incorporates the as-yet underestimated role of the city's Benedictine monastery.

A major reappraisal of the art and architecture of the Cistercians in the late Middle Ages.

‘This is a brilliant and genuinely ground-breaking book, representing a significant step forward in literary and historical analysis of the Norse-Gaelic interface’.

(Professor Ralph O’Connor, University of Aberdeen)