The Missionary Life: Saints and the Evangelisation of Europe, 400-1050Longman, 2001 - 309 pagina's KEY BENEFIT The great missionary figures were crucial to their own time and to posterity. They brought Christian belief and culture to the pagan societies of Dark Age Europe. Tribal and nomadic societies were propelled out of the forest and the plain into a 'civilized' world that carried the genes of the Roman imperial past. The missionaries were crucial too, because of the record they and their correspondents left of the cultures they transformed. The work of St Augustine in England is just one example. The missionaries were not only agents of change, they were also some of Europe's first historians. Anyone who has read Ian Wood's equally ambitious and compelling survey The Merovingian Kingdoms, 451-1050 , will rediscover his ability to bring a remote age to life. Here, the unreliable history of the missionary life is disentangled by Ian Wood to produce a uniquely wide-ranging account - giving a sense of the individual experience and collective ethos of the mission, the missionaries' influence on communities and their links to the rest of Christendom. In the Missionary Life the roles and aims of the missionaries, provide a starting point for the history of early medieval Europe. While spiritualism is examined Ian Wood also focuses on the darker side of missionary life - flagellation, starvation, torture - as well as sanctity. Contemporary willing and unwilling evangelism relates to some of these first Christian pioneers. For reader interested in medieval and/or church history. Also available in hardcover, 0-582-31212-4, $ 69.95Y. |
Inhoudsopgave
THE CHRISTIANISATION OF EUROPE 4001000 | 5 |
Unfinished business | 13 |
FROM PATRICK TO BEDE | 25 |
ALCUIN AND ECHTERNACH | 79 |
UTRECHT AND MÜNSTER | 100 |
HAMBURG AND BREMEN | 123 |
SALZBURG AND FREISING IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY | 145 |
Arbeo of Freisings Lives of Emmeram and Corbinian | 150 |
Adalbert of Prague and the cult of Wenceslas | 198 |
The Passio Wenceslai Regis of Laurentius of Montecassino | 199 |
ADALBERT OF PRAGUE | 207 |
The beginnings of the cult | 211 |
Adalbert | 212 |
Adalbert and his biographers | 215 |
BRUNO OF QUERFURT | 226 |
Saxony Poland and Bohemia in the lifetime of Bruno | 227 |
Politics and Arbeos Lives | 153 |
Religious purposes in Arbeos Lives | 154 |
The literary form of Arbeos Lives | 155 |
the date | 156 |
Willibald and Arbeo | 157 |
The Bavarian past | 158 |
Mission | 159 |
consensus in Würzburg? | 160 |
NINTHCENTURY SALZBURG | 168 |
Missionary history as legal history | 171 |
Constantine and Methodius | 173 |
Ermenrich of Passau and the attitude of the Bavarian Church | 176 |
Nicolas I and the papal involvement in mission | 178 |
The letter of Theotmar | 179 |
THE LATIN LEGENDS OF WENCESLAS | 187 |
Christians Vita et Passio sancti Wenceslai et sancte Ludmile ave eius | 188 |
The sources | 192 |
Saxony and Bohemia | 194 |
Gumpold and Otto II | 195 |
The career of Bruno of Querfurt | 231 |
The Life of the Five Brothers | 233 |
The letter to Henry II | 236 |
Bruno and mission | 239 |
CONCLUSION | 245 |
THE MISSIONARY THE FAMILIAR AND THE OTHER | 247 |
Audiences and intentions | 248 |
imagined and real | 250 |
Paganisms and superstitions | 253 |
Strategies of mission | 256 |
Strategies of survival new and familiar | 258 |
Visions as spiritual consolation | 261 |
The shift in the miraculous | 262 |
Confessional writing | 264 |
Hagiography and the history of mission | 265 |
Bibliography of works cited | 272 |
Maps | 289 |
Index | 299 |
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