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In the Shadow of Death. Saint Boniface and the Conversion of Hessia, 721?54,
by J.-H. Clay;
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Turnhout Brepols 2011. Hardback, XX 487 p., 41 b/w ill., 9 b/w tables, 21 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503531618. In the year 721 the Anglo-Saxon missionary St Boniface came with his followers to Hessia, a small but turbulent province on the borders of the expanding Frankish kingdom. This book is the first dedicated interdisciplinary study of Boniface?s thirty-three-year mission among the Hessians. The author relates the historical sources to the rich archaeological heritage of the region in order to describe the political and cultural context of the mission and its relationship to long-term Frankish interests in the Saxon borderlands. Thanks to the survival of many letters between the missionary community and its supporters, it is also possible to examine a symbolic literary discourse that portrayed the missionaries as heroic exiles who chose to suffer torments in a distant land for the sake of Christ. Finally, fresh evidence drawn from topography and place names is used to argue for the existence of an expansive pre-Christian sacred landscape that was one of the major obstacles faced by Boniface and his followers. The result is an innovative study that brings history and archaeology into communication with the landscape, both real and imagined, in order to reconstruct a crucial moment in the conversion of Europe in all its complexity, ambiguity, and drama. An award-winning interdisciplinary study of the Anglo-Saxon mission of St Boniface to Hessia in the eighth century. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (CELAMA 11). Languages: English, Latin, German. New.
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- In the Shadow of Death. Saint Boniface and the Conversion of Hessia, 721?54,
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- J.-H. Clay;
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- Used
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 250353161X
- ISBN 13
- 9782503531618
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- Turnhout Brepols 2011
- This edition first published
- 2010
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- Clay In the Shadow of Death Saint Boniface and the Conversion of Hessia, 721?54 sint bonifatius bekering relig geschiedenis histoire history mission Brepols 978-2-503-53161-8
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