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Author:   Alexander O'Hara (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 15.70cm
Weight:   0.590kg
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9780190857967

ISBN 10:   019085796
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   24 May 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface List of Abbreviations Maps Contributors Foreword Walter Pohl Part I: Columbanus in Context Chapter 1: Introduction: Columbanus and Europe Alexander O'Hara Chapter 2: Columbanus and the Language of Concord Damian Bracken Part II: The Insular Background Chapter 3: The Political Background to Columbanus's Irish Career Dáibhí Ó Cróinín Chapter 4: Movers and Shakers? How Women Shaped the Career of Columbanus Elva Johnston Chapter 5: Columbanus's Ulster Education Alex Woolf Part III: The Frankish World Chapter 6: Columbanus in Brittany Ian Wood Chapter 7: Columbanus and Shunning: The Irish peregrinus between Gildas, Gaul, and Gregory Clare Stancliffe Chapter 8: Orthodoxy and Authority: Jonas, Eustasius, and the Agrestius Affair Andreas Fischer Chapter 9: Columbanus and the Mission to the Bavarians and the Slavs in the Seventh Century Herwig Wolfram Part IV: On the Fringe: Columbanus and Gallus in Alamannia Chapter 10: Between the Devil and the deep Lake Constance: Jonas of Bobbio, interpretatio Christiana, and the Pagan Religion of the Alamanni Bernhard Maier Chapter 11: Drinking with Woden: A Re-Examination of Jonas's Vita Columbani I. 27 Francesco Borri Chapter 12: Between Metz and Überlingen: Columbanus and Gallus in Alamannia Yaniv Fox Chapter 13: Quicumque sunt rebelles, foras exeant! Columbanus's Rebellious Disciple Gallus Philipp Dörler Part V: Lombard Italy and Columbanus's Legacy Chapter 14: Columbanus, Bobbio, and the Lombards Stefano Gasparri Chapter 15: Disputing Columbanus's Heritage: The Regula cuiusdam patris (with a translation of the Rule) Albrecht Diem

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In this wonderful collection of essays the reader travels with Columbanus through the Christian West, from Ireland to Brittany, from Northern Gaul to the Rhine, Bavaria, Alamannia, and Italy. Through the great Irishman's encounters with secular and ecclesiastical elites, with various religious cultures, Roman traditions, post-Roman states and peoples, this volume illuminates the profound changes that characterize the transition from the ancient to the medieval world. * Helmut Reimitz, Princeton University *

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"Alexander O'Hara is a Research Fellow of the Institut für Mittelalterforschung in the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna and an Honorary Fellow of the School of History in the University of St. Andrews. He is the translator (with Ian Wood) of Jonas of Bobbio's Life of Columbanus and His Disciples and was the Principal Investigator of the project ""The Columbanian Network: Elite Identities and Christian Communities in Europe (550-750),"" funded by the Austrian Science Fund from 2013-2016."

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