A companion to Boniface / / edited by Michel Aaij and Shannon Godlove.

• Superior document: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; Volume 92
• TeilnehmendeR: Aaij, Michel,; Godlove, Shannon,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; Volume 92.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The eighth-century English missionary and church reformer Boniface was a highly influential figure in early medieval Europe. His career in modern-day Germany, France, and the Netherlands is attested in an exceptional number of textual sources: a correspondence of over 150 letters, Latin poetry, church council records, sermons, and penitentials. Numerous saints’ lives and modern devotional materials further reveal how he was 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 include: 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Michel Aaij and Shannon Godlove -- Part 1: Contexts. Boniface : his life and work / Rudolf Schieffer -- Boniface's West Saxon background / Barbara Yorke -- Boniface's missionary circles and networks / James T. Palmer -- Women in the Anglo-Saxon missionary circles / Felice LIfshitz -- Part 2: written sources. Boniface as poet and teacher / Emily V. Thornbury -- The Boniface correspondence / Michel Aaij -- The first life of Boniface : Willibald's Vita Bonifatii / Shannon Godlove -- The later medieval Vitae Bonifatii / Shannon Godlove -- Boniface : preaching an penance / Rob Meens -- Boniface and the reform councils / Michael Glatthaar -- Part 3: Spheres of activity. Boniface in Francia / Michael Edward Moore -- Boniface in Hessia and Thuringia / John-Henry Clay -- Boniface in Bavaria / Leanne Good -- Boniface in Frista / Marco Mostert -- Part 4: Veneration and afterlife. The veneration of Boniface in the Middle Ages / Petra Kehl -- Imitemur nos, qui alumni eius sumus... : Bonifaces's Nachleben in early medieval Fulda / Janneke Raaijmakers -- Boniface as political saint in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries / Siegfiried Weichlein -- Popular veneration and the image of Boniface in the modern era / Michel Aaij.