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The eighth-century English missionary and church reformer Boniface was a highly influential figure in early medieval Europe. His career in what is now Germany, France, and the Netherlands is attested in an exceptional number of textual sources: a correspondence of 150 letters, Latin poetry, church council records, and other documents. Numerous saints’ lives and modern devotional materials further reveal how he was and is remembered by the religious communities that claim him as a foundational figure.
This volume comprises the latest scholarship on Boniface and his fellow missionaries, examining the written materials associated with Boniface, his impacts on the regions of Europe where he worked (Hessia, Thuringia, Bavaria, Frisia, and Francia), and the development of his cult in the Middle Ages and today.
Contributors: Michel Aaij, John-Henry Clay, Michael Glatthaar, Shannon Godlove, Leanne Good, Petra Kehl, Felice Lifshitz, Rob Meens, Michael Edward Moore, Marco Mostert, James Palmer, Janneke Raaijmakers, Rudolf Schieffer, Emily Thornbury, Siegfried Weichlein, and Barbara Yorke.
This volume comprises the latest scholarship on Boniface and his fellow missionaries, examining the written materials associated with Boniface, his impacts on the regions of Europe where he worked (Hessia, Thuringia, Bavaria, Frisia, and Francia), and the development of his cult in the Middle Ages and today.
Contributors: Michel Aaij, John-Henry Clay, Michael Glatthaar, Shannon Godlove, Leanne Good, Petra Kehl, Felice Lifshitz, Rob Meens, Michael Edward Moore, Marco Mostert, James Palmer, Janneke Raaijmakers, Rudolf Schieffer, Emily Thornbury, Siegfried Weichlein, and Barbara Yorke.
Price: $331.00
Pages: 562
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition
Publication Date:
18 June 2020
ISBN: 9789004338517
Format: Hardcover
"Aaij, Godlove, and their fellow contributors offer critical perspectives from the UK, North American, German, and Dutch scholarly communities. Apart from John-Henry Clay’s In the Shadow of Death: Saint Boniface and the Conversion of Hessia (2010) scholarship on Boniface is scant, so this book is particularly welcome. The editors and contributors are scholars of religious studies and English and medieval history. The book includes a few color illustrations and maps and a 61-page bibliography. Summing Up: recommended." - Agnes H. Widder, Michigan State University, in Choice Connect 59.2
"A valuable compendium of perspectives on Saint Boniface, succinctly articulated, carefully documented, and thoughtfully analyzed with depth and insight. The authors incidentally provide a very fine update of scholarship on all of the saint’s times and places in general." - Craig R. Davis, Smith College, in The Medieval Review 22.02.21
"The book gives a good state of the question regarding Boniface's life and subsequent reception. It is well produced, with occasional illustrations and maps." - Charles Hilken, Saint Mary’s College of California, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Fall 2023), pp. 1158–1159
"A valuable compendium of perspectives on Saint Boniface, succinctly articulated, carefully documented, and thoughtfully analyzed with depth and insight. The authors incidentally provide a very fine update of scholarship on all of the saint’s times and places in general." - Craig R. Davis, Smith College, in The Medieval Review 22.02.21
"The book gives a good state of the question regarding Boniface's life and subsequent reception. It is well produced, with occasional illustrations and maps." - Charles Hilken, Saint Mary’s College of California, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Fall 2023), pp. 1158–1159
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.
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.