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A companion to Boniface /

"The eighth-century English missionary and church reformer Boniface was a highly influential figure in early medieval Europe. His career in what is now Germany, France, and the Netherlands is attested in an exceptional number of textual sources: a correspondence of 150 letters, Latin poetry chu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Aaij, Michel (Editor), Godlove, Shannon (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
Series:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; 92.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Michel Aaij and Shannon Godlove
  • Part 1: Contexts. Boniface : his life and work / Rudolf Schieffer
  • Boniface's West Saxon background / Barbara Yorke
  • Boniface's missionary circles and networks / James T. Palmer
  • Women in the Anglo-Saxon missionary circles / Felice LIfshitz
  • Part 2: written sources. Boniface as poet and teacher / Emily V. Thornbury
  • The Boniface correspondence / Michel Aaij
  • The first life of Boniface : Willibald's Vita Bonifatii / Shannon Godlove
  • The later medieval Vitae Bonifatii / Shannon Godlove
  • Boniface : preaching an penance / Rob Meens
  • Boniface and the reform councils / Michael Glatthaar
  • Part 3: Spheres of activity. Boniface in Francia / Michael Edward Moore
  • Boniface in Hessia and Thuringia / John-Henry Clay
  • Boniface in Bavaria / Leanne Good
  • Boniface in Frista / Marco Mostert
  • Part 4: Veneration and afterlife. The veneration of Boniface in the Middle Ages / Petra Kehl
  • Imitemur nos, qui alumni eius sumus ... : Bonifaces's Nachleben in early medieval Fulda / Janneke Raaijmakers
  • Boniface as political saint in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries / Siegfiried Weichlein
  • Popular veneration and the image of Boniface in the modern era / Michel Aaij.