Research Catalog

Title

Columbanus and the peoples of post-Roman Europe / edited by Alexander O'Hara.

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
• 2018

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Details

Additional Authors

O'Hara, Alexander

Description

xx, 320 pages : maps; 25 cm

Summary

"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 power networks. This collected volume of essays focuses on one of the central figures in this process, the Irish ascetic exile and monastic founder, Columbanus (c. 550-615), his travels on the Continent, and the monastic network he and his Frankish disciples established in Merovingian Gaul and Lombard Italy. The post-Roman kingdoms through which Columbanus travelled and established his monastic foundations were made up of many different communities of peoples. As an outsider and immigrant, how did Columbanus and his communities interact with these peoples? How did they negotiate differences and what emerged from these encounters? How societies interact with outsiders can reveal the inner workings and social norms of that culture. This volume aims to explore further the strands of this vibrant contact and to consider all of the geographical spheres in which Columbanus and his monastic communities operated (Ireland, Merovingian Gaul, Alamannia, Lombard Italy) and the varieties of communities he and his successors came in contact with - whether they be royal, ecclesiastic, aristocratic, or grass-roots."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Oxford studies in late antiquity

Uniform Title

Oxford studies in late antiquity.

Subjects

• Missions, European
• Christian saints, Celtic
• 30-600
• Civilization > Roman influences
• History
• Missions > History > Early church, ca. 30-600
• Biography
• Columban, Saint, 543-615
• Missions > Early church
• Missions, European > History
• Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
• Missions, Irish > History
• Christian saints, Celtic > Biography
• Church history > Primitive and early church

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• History.

Note

• "This volume grew out of a conference held in Vienna in November 2013 on Columbanus and the peoples of post-Roman Europe."--Page xi.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in electronic format.

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.

Call Number

JFE 18-7779

ISBN

• 9780190857967
• 019085796X

OCLC

1022616684

Title

Columbanus and the peoples of post-Roman Europe / edited by Alexander O'Hara.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford studies in late antiquity

Oxford studies in late antiquity.

Additional Formats

Also available in electronic format.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

30-600

Added Author

O'Hara, Alexander, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-7779