A Companion to Boniface

A survey of the life, historical and political impacts, and textual sources associated with the early medieval English missionary and church reformer Boniface, who was active in the eighth century in what is today Germany, France, and the Netherlands.

About the author

Michel Aaij is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery. He studied at Amsterdam's Vrije Universiteit and received a Ph.D. in Medieval Language and Literature from the University of Alabama. His interests include the popular veneration of saints; he has published on saints Elisabeth and Boniface.

Shannon Godlove is Associate Professor of English at Columbus State University. She received a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research on Old English and Anglo-Latin saints' lives has been published in journals such as Studies in Philology, Philological Quarterly, and Early Medieval Europe.

Product details

• Assisted by: Michel Aaij (Editor), Shannon Godlove (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2020
• EAN: 9789004338517
• ISBN: 978-90-04-33851-7
• No. of pages: 580
• Weight: 982 g
• Series: Brill's Companions to the Chri
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies