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Zusatztext An engaging study of a little-known figure, shedding new light on monasteries associated with Columbanus. In O'Hara's hands, Jonas of Bobbio emerges as a perceptive commentator on religion, politics, and culture in seventh-century Frankia, with particular interests in royal patronage and in the qualities necessary for effective monastic leadership. Informationen zum Autor Dr Alexander O'Hara is a Research Fellow of the Institut für Mittelalterforschung in the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna and an Honorary Research Fellow of the School of History in the University of St Andrews. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Reading Jonas 1. Conflicting Visions of Community: The Legacy of Columbanus 2. New Rules: The Agrestius Affair and the Regula Benedicti 3. An Italian Monk in Merovingian Gaul 4. Stilo texere gesta: Jonas the Hagiographer 5. Jonas and Biblical Stylization 6. The Miracle Accounts 7. Sanctity and Community Epilogue Appendices Distribution of Biblical quotations and allusions in Jonas's hagiography The Use of the Bible in the Vita Vedastis The Use of the Bible in the Vita Iohannis The Use of the Bible in the Vita Columbani Miracle Accounts in the Vita Columbani Miracle Accounts in Adomnán's Vita Columbae Miracle Accounts in Book II of Gregory the Great's Dialogues Miracle Accounts in the Vita Vedastis Miracle Accounts in Vita Iohannis Miracles in Muirchú's Vita Patricii The Manuscripts of the Vita Columbani Graphs of Miracle Accounts in Vita Columbani Bibliography ...
