The Missionary Life: Saints and the Evangelisation of Europe 400-1050

ISBN-13: 9780582312135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 322 str.

Wood, Ian

Opis

A wide-ranging account of missionary life, this text gives 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.

Spis treści

I. INTRODUCTORY. 1. The Chritianization of Europe, 400 - 1000. 2. From Patrick to Bede. II. THE ANGLO-SAXONS AND THEIR LEGACY. 3. Boniface, Mainz and Fulda. 4. Alcunin and Echternach. 5. Utrecht and Münster. 6. Hamburg and Bremen. III. BAVARIANS, SLAVS AND SAXONS. 7. Salzburg and Freising in the Eight Century. 8. Ninth-Century Salzburg. 9. The Latin Legends of Wenceslas. 10. Adalbert of Prague. 11. Bruno of Querfurt. IV. CONCLUSION. The Missionary, The 'Familiar' and the 'Other'.

O autorze

Ian Wood