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Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus - Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century (Hardcover)
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Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus - Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
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Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a
major Latin monastic author, but also an historical 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 exile Columbanus, soon after his death in 615.
He became the archivist and personal assistant to successive Bobbio
abbots, travelled to Rome to obtain the first papal privilege of
immunity, and served as a missionary priest on the northern
borderlands of the Frankish kingdom. He spent the rest of his life
in Merovingian Gaul as abbot of the double monastic community of
Marchiennes-Hamage, where he wrote his Life of Columbanus, one of
the most influential works of early medieval hagiography. This
book, the first major study devoted to Jonas of Bobbio, his corpus
of three saints' Lives, and the Columbanian familia, explores the
development of the Columbanian monastic network and its
relationship to its founder. The Life of Columbanus was written
following a period of crisis within the Columbanian familia and it
was in response to this crisis that the Bobbio community in Lombard
Italy commissioned Jonas to write the work. Alexander O'Hara
presents the Life of Columbanus as a subtle and clever critique of
the changes and crises that had taken place in the monastic
communities since Columbanus's death. It also considers the life of
Jonas as reflecting many of the changing political, cultural, and
religious circumstances of the seventh century, and his writings as
instrumental in shaping new concepts of sanctity and community. The
result of the study is a unique perspective on the early medieval
Age of Saints and the monastic and political worlds of Merovingian
Gaul and Lombard Italy in the seventh century.
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