Columbanus and the peoples of post-Roman Europe /

"The period 550 to 750 was one in which monastic culture became more firmly entrenched in Western Europe. The role of monasteries and their relationship to the social world around them was transformed during this period as monastic institutions became more integrated in social and political pow...

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Other Authors: O'Hara, Alexander (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Series:Oxford studies in late antiquity.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Walter Pohl
  • : Introduction : Columbanus and Europe / Alexander O'Hara
  • Columbanus and the language of Concord / Damian Bracken
  • The political background to Columbanus's Irish career / Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
  • Movers and shakers? : how women shaped the career of Columbanus / Elva Johnston
  • Columbanus's Ulster education / Alex Woolf
  • Columbanus in Brittany / Ian Wood
  • Columbanus and shunning : the Irish peregrinus between Gildas, Gaul, and Gregory / Clare Stancliffe
  • Orthodoxy and authority : Jonas, Eustasius, and the Agrestius affair / Andreas Fischer
  • Columbanus and the mission to the Bavarians and the Slavs in the seventh century / Herwig Wolfram
  • Between the devil and the deep Lake Constance : Jonas of Bobbio, interpretatio Christiana, and the pagan religion of the Alamanni / Bernhard Maier
  • Drinking with Woden : a re-examination of Jonas's Vita Columbani I. 27 / Francesco Borri
  • Between Metz and Überlingen : Columbanus and Gallus in Alamannia / Yaniv Fox
  • Quicumque sunt rebelles, foras exeant! Columbanus's rebellious disciple Gallus / Philipp Dörler
  • Columbanus, Bobbio, and the Lombards / Stefano Gasparri
  • Disputing Columbanus's heritage : The Regula cuiusdam patris (with a translation of the Rule) / Albrecht Diem.