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"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 post-Roman kingdoms through which Columbanus travelled and established his monastic foundations were made up of many different communities of peoples. As an outsider and immigrant, how did Columbanus and his communities interact with these peoples? How did they negotiate differences and what emerged from these encounters? How societies interact with outsiders can reveal the inner workings and social norms of that culture. This volume aims to explore further the strands of this vibrant contact and to consider all of the geographical spheres in which Columbanus and his monastic communities operated (Ireland, Merovingian Gaul, Alamannia, Lombard Italy) and the varieties of communities he and his successors came in contact with - whether they be royal, ecclesiastic, aristocratic, or grass-roots."--Publisher's website.

Christian saints, Celtic - Biography --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Missions - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- Civilization - Roman influences --- Columbanus ab. Luxoviensis et Bobiensis --- Columban, - Saint, - 543-615 --- Christian saints, Celtic --- Church history --- Missions --- Missions, Irish --- Missions, European --- Civilization --- Christian saints, Celtic. --- Missions, European. --- Missions, Irish. --- History --- History. --- Roman influences. --- Primitive and early church. --- Early church. --- Columban, --- 30-600.

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Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid-seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author but also a historic 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 abbot Columbanus, soon after the saint's death. He became archivist and personal assistant to successive Bobbio abbots, traveled to Rome to obtain the first papal privilege of immunity, and served as a missionary on the northern borderlands of the Frankish kingdom, where he wrote his Vita Columbani, one of the most influential works of early medieval hagiography.

Columbanus ab. Luxoviensis et Bobiensis --- Ionas mon. Bobiensis hagiographus --- Monastic and religious life --- Jonas, - of Bobbio, Abbot, - -approximately 665 --- Columban, - Saint, - 543-615

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Jonas of Bobbio was an Italian monk, author, and abbot, active in Lombard Italy and Merovingian Gaul during the seventh century. He is best known as the author of the Life of Columbanus and His Disciples, one of the most important works of hagiography from the early medieval period, that charts the remarkable journey of the Irish exile and monastic founder, Columbanus (d. 615), through Western Europe, as well as the monastic movement initiated by him and his Frankish successors in the Merovingian kingdoms. In the years following Columbanus’s death numerous new monasteries were built by his successors and their elite patrons in Francia that decisively transformed the inter-relationship between monasteries and secular authorities in the Early Middle Ages. Jonas also wrote two other, occasional works set in the late fifth and sixth centuries: the Life of John, the abbot and founder of the monastery of Réomé in Burgundy, and the Life of Vedast, the first bishop of Arras and a contemporary of Clovis. Both works provide perspectives on how the past Gallic monastic tradition, the role of bishops, and the Christianization of the Franks were perceived in Jonas’s time. Jonas’s hagiography also provides important evidence for the reception of classical and late antique texts as well as the works of Gregory the Great and Gregory of Tours.This volume presents the first complete English translation of all of Jonas of Bobbio’s saints’ Lives with detailed notes and scholarly introduction that will be of value to all those interested in this period.

Christian hagiography. --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Columban, --- Vaast, --- Vedast, --- Vedastus, --- Colombano, --- Columba, --- Columbanus, --- Christian hagiography --- Christian saints --- History --- Early works to 1800 --- John, --- Jonas, --- 235.3 COLUMBANUS --- 235.3 COLUMBANUS Hagiografie--COLUMBANUS --- 235.3 COLUMBANUS Hagiographie--COLUMBANUS --- Hagiografie--COLUMBANUS --- Hagiographie--COLUMBANUS --- Church history --- Christian saints - Gaul - Biography - Early works to 1800 --- Christian saints - Biography - Early works to 1800 --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500 --- Columbanus ab. Luxoviensis et Bobiensis --- Iohannes ab. Reomaensis --- Vedastus ep. Atrebatensis --- Columban, - Saint, - 543-615 --- Vaast, - Saint, Bishop of Arras, - approximately 453-540 --- John, - of Réôme, Saint, - active 6th century --- Jonas, - of Bobbio, Abbot, - -approximately 665 --- Jonas, - of Bobbio, Abbot, - -approximately 665. - Vita Columbani et discipulorum eius