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, chur...

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.