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Jonas of Bobbio: Life of Columbanus, Life of John of Réomé, and Life of Vedast

Jonas of Bobbio: Life of Columbanus, Life of John of Réomé, and Life of Vedast

O'Hara, Alexander
O'Hara, Alexander
Wood, Ian

Hardcover

Series: Translated Texts for Historians, Book 64

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral ChristianityItalian History

ISBN10: 1781381763
ISBN13: 9781781381762
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Feb 13 2017
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Jonas of Bobbio was an Italian monk, author, and abbot, active in Lombard Italy and Merovingian Gaul during the seventh century. He is best known as the author of the Life of Columbanus and His Disciples, one of the most important works of hagiography from the early medieval period, that charts the remarkable journey of the Irish exile and monastic founder, Columbanus (d. 615), through Western Europe, as well as the monastic movement initiated by him and his Frankish successors in the Merovingian kingdoms. In the years following Columbanus's death numerous new monasteries were built by his successors and their elite patrons in Francia that decisively transformed the inter-relationship between monasteries and secular authorities in the Early Middle Ages. Jonas also wrote two other, occasional works set in the late fifth and sixth centuries: the Life of John, the abbot and founder of the monastery of Réomé in Burgundy, and the Life of Vedast, the first bishop of Arras and a

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