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Jonas of Bobbio and the legacy of Columbanus / Alexander O'Hara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Hara, Alexander, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in late antiquity.
- Oxford studies in late antiquity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jonas, of Bobbio, Abbot, -approximately 665.
- Jonas.
- Columban, Saint, 543-615--Influence.
- Columban.
- Monastic and religious life--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Monastic and religious life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid-seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author but also a historic figure in his own right. Born in the ancient Roman town of Susa in the foothills of the Italian Alps, he became a monk of Bobbio, the monastery founded by the Irish abbot Columbanus, soon after the saint's death. He became archivist and personal assistant to successive Bobbio abbots, traveled to Rome to obtain the first papal privilege of immunity, and served as a missionary on the northern borderlands of the Frankish kingdom, where he wrote his Vita Columbani, one of the most influential works of early medieval hagiography.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 10, 2018).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-085802-8
- 0-19-085801-X
- 0-19-085803-6
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