A Companion to Boniface (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition)

Aaij, Michel (EDT)/ Godlove, Shannon (EDT)

Brill（2020/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 562 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004338517
• DDC分類 270.2092

Full Description

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, church council records, and other documents. Numerous saints' lives and modern devotional materials further reveal how he was and is remembered by the religious communities that claim him as a foundational figure.

This volume comprises the latest scholarship on Boniface and his fellow missionaries, examining the written materials associated with Boniface, his impacts on the regions of Europe where he worked (Hessia, Thuringia, Bavaria, Frisia, and Francia), and the development of his cult in the Middle Ages and today.

Contributors: Michel Aaij, John-Henry Clay, Michael Glatthaar, Shannon Godlove, Leanne Good, Petra Kehl, Felice Lifshitz, Rob Meens, Michael Edward Moore, Marco Mostert, James Palmer, Janneke Raaijmakers, Rudolf Schieffer, Emily Thornbury, Siegfried Weichlein, and Barbara Yorke.

Contents

  Acknowledgements

  Abbreviations

  List of Illustrations

  Notes on Contributors

 Introduction

   Michel Aaij and Shannon Godlove

Part 1: Contexts

 1 Boniface: His Life and Work

   Rudolf Schieffer

 2 Boniface's West Saxon Background

   Barbara Yorke

 3 Boniface's Missionary Circles and Networks

   James T. Palmer

 4 Women in the Anglo-Saxon Missionary Circles

   Felice Lifshitz

Part 2: Written Sources

 5 Boniface as Poet and Teacher

   Emily V. Thornbury

 6 The Boniface Correspondence

   Michel Aaij

 7 The First Life of Boniface: Willibald's Vita Bonifatii

   Shannon Godlove

 8 The Later Medieval Vitae Bonifatii

   Shannon Godlove

 9 Boniface: Preaching and Penance

   Rob Meens

 10 Boniface and the Reform Councils

   Michael Glatthaar

Part 3: Spheres of Activity

 11 Boniface in Francia

   Michael Edward Moore

 12 Boniface in Hessia and Thuringia

   John-Henry Clay

 13 Boniface in Bavaria

   Leanne Good

 14 Boniface in Frisia

   Marco Mostert

Part 4: Veneration and Afterlife

 15 The Veneration of Boniface in the Middle Ages

   Petra Kehl

 16 Imitemur nos, qui alumni eius sumus...: Boniface's Nachleben in Early Medieval Fulda

   Janneke Raaijmakers

 17 Boniface as Political Saint in Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries

   Siegfried Weichlein

 18 Popular Veneration and the Image of Boniface in the Modern Era

   Michel Aaij

  Bibliography

  Index