A Companion to Boniface

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-33851-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 92, 562 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 982 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aaij, Michel

Godlove, Shannon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Michel Aaij is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery. He studied at Amsterdam’s Vrije Universiteit and received a Ph.D. in Medieval Language and Literature from the University of Alabama. His interests include the popular veneration of saints; he has published on saints Elisabeth and Boniface.

Shannon Godlove is Associate Professor of English at Columbus State University. She received a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research on Old English and Anglo-Latin saints' lives has been published in journals such as Studies in Philology, Philological Quarterly, and Early Medieval Europe.