Alexander O'Hara (Institut fur Mittelalterforschun Research Fellow

Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus

Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Jonas of Bobbio's life mirrored many of the transformations of the seventh century, while his three saints' Lives provide a window into the early medieval Age of Saints and the monastic and political worlds of Merovingian Gaul and Lombard Italy.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780190858001
• ISBN-10: 0190858001
• Artikelnr.: 50988673

Autorenporträt

Dr Alexander O'Hara is a Research Fellow of the Institut für Mittelalterforschung in the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna and an Honorary Research Fellow of the School of History in the University of St Andrews.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Reading Jonas
1. Conflicting Visions of Community: The Legacy of Columbanus
2. New Rules: The Agrestius Affair and the Regula Benedicti
3. An Italian Monk in Merovingian Gaul
4. Stilo texere gesta: Jonas the Hagiographer
5. Jonas and Biblical Stylization
6. The Miracle Accounts
7. Sanctity and Community
Epilogue
Appendices
Distribution of Biblical quotations and allusions in Jonas's hagiography
The Use of the Bible in the Vita Vedastis
The Use of the Bible in the Vita Iohannis
The Use of the Bible in the Vita Columbani
Miracle Accounts in the Vita Columbani
Miracle Accounts in Adomnán's Vita Columbae
Miracle Accounts in Book II of Gregory the Great's Dialogues
Miracle Accounts in the Vita Vedastis
Miracle Accounts in Vita Iohannis
Miracles in Muirchú's Vita Patricii
The Manuscripts of the Vita Columbani
Graphs of Miracle Accounts in Vita Columbani
Bibliography