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Jonas of Bobbio and the legacy of Columbanus : sanctity and community in the seventh century
Jonas of Bobbio and the 'Vita Columbani'
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"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 politi...
"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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- Creator
- Alexander O'Hara
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- English
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- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- xv, 322 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780190858001, 0190858001, 9780190858018, 019085801X, 9780190858025, 0190858028, 9780190858032, 0190858036
- OCLC
- on1020559479
- Revision of author's doctoral thesis "Jonas of Bobbio and the 'Vita Columbani' : sanctity and community in the seventh century."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-299) and index.
- Conflicting visions of community : the legacy of Columbanus -- New rules : the Agrestius affair and the Regula Benedicti -- An Italian monk in Merovingian Gaul -- Stilo Texere Gesta : Jonas the hagiographer -- Jonas and Biblical stylization -- The miracle accounts -- Sanctity and community
Subjects
- Jonas, of Bobbio, Abbot, -approximately 665.
- Columban, Saint, 543-615 -- Influence.
- Hagiographers -- Italy -- Biography.
- Monastic and religious life -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Monastic and religious life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Monasticism and religious orders -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Monasticism and religious orders -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.