Columbanus and the peoples of post-Roman Europe / Alexander O'Hara.

Columbanus and the peoples of post-Roman Europe / Alexander O'Hara.

9780190857998 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

English

1 online resource : illustrations, maps.

BR1720.C624

270.2092

The period 550 to 750 was one in which monastic culture became more firmly entrenched in Western Europe. The role of monasteries and their relationship to the social world around them was transformed during this period as monastic institutions became more integrated in social and political power networks. This collected volume of essays focuses on one of the central figures in this process, the Irish ascetic exile and monastic founder, Columbanus (c. 550-615), his travels on the Continent, and the monastic network he and his Frankish disciples established in Merovingian Gaul and Lombard Italy.

The period 550 to 750 was one in which monastic culture became more firmly entrenched in Western Europe. The role of monasteries and their relationship to the social world around them was transformed during this period as monastic institutions became more integrated in social and political power networks. This collected volume of essays focuses on one of the central figures in this process, the Irish ascetic exile and monastic founder, Columbanus (c. 550-615), his travels on the Continent, and the monastic network he and his Frankish disciples established in Merovingian Gaul and Lombard Italy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford studies in late antiquity.

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