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Jonas of Bobbio: Life of Columbanus, Life of John of Réomé, and Life of Vedast (Translated Texts for Historians LUP)

Alexander O'Hara

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Description for Jonas of Bobbio: Life of Columbanus, Life of John of Réomé, and Life of Vedast (Translated Texts for Historians LUP) Hardcover. A translation of the two books of The Life of Columbanus, a central text for the history of seventh-century monasticism. The Life of John of Reome and The Life of Vedast are also included. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3F; HBLC; HRCC1; HRCX8. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 147. .
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 ... Read more

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Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Format

Hardback

Publication date

2017

Series

Translated Texts for Historians

Condition

New

Weight

28g

Number of Pages

400

Place of Publication

Liverpool, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781781381762

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V9781781381762

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About Alexander O'Hara

Dr Alexander O'Hara is a Research Fellow of the Institut für Mittelalterforschung in the Austrian Academy of Sciences and an Hon. Research Fellow of the School of History, University of St Andrews. Professor Ian Wood is Professor of Early Medieval History in the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. His research interests focus on the history ... Read more

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Reviews 'There is a richness to the material which O'Hara and Wood have done us a great service in making more accessible.' Jamie Kreiner, The Medieval Review 'This book is a timely and meaningful contribution to the scholarship on Merovingian Gaul. It is important not only for its accessible translation of a large and difficult corpus of works ... Read moreset against a complicated historical and textual background, but also for its clear synthesis of current scholarship. Finally, it elegantly succeeds in navigating the “Irish” vs. “Frankish” controversy, which seems to have reawakened of late.' Yaniv Fox, Speculum 'This very welcome new translation is also a highly sophisticated scholarly edition. It is particularly rich in bibliography, with an extensive listing of virtually all the secondary literature on Columban and his times.' Terrence Kardong, American Benedictine Review 'This very welcome addition to Liverpool University Press’s Translated Texts for Historians more than lives up to expectations for this esteemed book series [...] Alexander O’Hara and Ian Wood’s volume will be an essential companion for its valuable introduction, detailed footnotes, half-dozen appendices, up-to-date bibliography, and, not least of all, high-quality translation of Jonas’s often challenging Latin. [...] In sum, this is an important book, not only for the early medieval texts it makes available to a much wider potential readership but also for the exceptional scholarship that went into the presentation and translation of those texts.' Westley Follett, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies ‘Whatever the final outcome of contemporary debates about Columbanus, ‘Columbanian Monasticism’, and the influence of the Irish in continental Europe in the early Middle Ages, this volume will provide invaluable evidence (for both sides!) for many years to come.’ Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Early Medieval Europe 'The publication of an erudite, readable, and heavily annotated translation of Jonas of Bobbio’s hagiographical corpus is a cause for celebration. Although one of the recognized classics of seventh-century hagiography, Jonas’s Vita Columbani until now has not been available in an unabridged English translation, while the comparatively brief lives of John of Réomé and Vedast appear for the very first time in English. [...] O’Hara and Wood thus have produced not only an invaluable teaching resource, but a significant contribution to the new wave of Columbanian studies.' Gregory I. Halfond, The Mediæval Journal Show Less

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