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Columbanus : light on the early Middle Ages / Burnam W. Reynolds.
Van Pelt Library BR1720.C624 R49 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reynolds, Burnam W.
- Series:
- Library of world biography
- The library of world biography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Columban, Saint, 543-615.
- Columban.
- Christian saints, Celtic--Biography.
- Christian saints, Celtic.
- Middle Ages.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Pearson, [2012]
- Summary:
- The history of the sixth and seventh centuries in the age of Irish missionary and saint, Columbanus, is also the history of budding monastic centers and cross-cultural contact. Columbanus was a highly influential participant in the development of the medieval church, and in the invigorating transmission of Irish culture to the emerging civilization on the continent. Through his life, readers gain an understanding of the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages-a pivotal time when Roman and barbarian cultures merged in Europe. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Measure of the Man 1
- The Overshadowed Man
- The Dream and the Birth
- The Problem of Hagiography
- Baptism of a Saint
- The Early Years
- 2 The World of His Youth 13
- Family Ties
- The Question of Education
- The Early Medieval Plague
- 3 The Call 24
- The Monastic Answer
- Advice from an Anchoress
- Telling His Mother
- Heeding the Call
- 4 Into the Monasteries 32
- The Work of Worship
- Moving On
- 5 White Martyrdom 40
- The Request
- Off to the Continent
- Landing on the Continent
- 6 Among the Merovingians 47
- The Merovingian Rule
- Finding a Royal Patron
- The Feud
- Concubines, Not Queens
- 7 Battling the Bishops 59
- Wanderers and False Prophets
- Some Points of Agreement
- An Appeal to the Pope
- 8 The Miraculous Missionary 68
- Up the Rhine to the Pagans
- The Question of Miracles
- At Bregenz
- Leaving Bregenz
- 9 Landing in Lombardy 77
- The Power of a Queen
- A Royal Patroness
- Attacking Arianism
- The Three Chapters Controversy
- 10 At Rest in Bobbio 90
- Columbanus' Shrine
- 11 The Legacy 101
- A Growing Monastic Network
- Influences on the Church
- Cultural and Political Influences.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780321338891
- 0321338898
- OCLC:
- 743214140
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