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Tables of Contents for The Missionary Life
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps
ix
Preface
xi
PART 1 INTRODUCTORY
1
54
The Christianisation of Europe, 400-1000
3
22
Christianisation and mission
3
2
Paganism
5
1
The Christian Empire
6
1
The barbarians
7
2
England
9
1
The borders of Francia
10
3
The Slavs of Carinthia, Moravia and Bohemia
13
1
Scandinavians
14
3
Unfinished business
17
1
The documentation of missionaries
18
7
From Patrick to Bede
25
30
Narrating mission
25
1
Patrick
26
2
Sulpicius Severus and paganism in the Vita Martini
28
1
Gregory of Langres and Gregory of Tours
29
2
Columbanus and Jonas of Bobbio
31
4
Jonas, Bobbio and Luxeuil
35
4
Amandus
39
3
Bede
42
1
Ecgbert and Wilfrid
43
1
The impact of the Historia Ecclesiastica
44
11
PART 2 THE ANGLO-SAXONS AND THEIR LEGACY
55
88
Boniface, Mainz and Fulda
57
22
Politics and Christianisation in the eighth century
57
1
Boniface
58
3
Willibald's Vita Bonifatii
61
3
Boniface in the works of Hygeburg of Heidenheim
64
2
Wigbert and Lupus of Ferrieres
66
1
Rudolf of Fulda's Life of Leoba
67
1
Eigil, Boniface and Sturm
68
4
The `heirs' of Boniface
72
7
Alcuin and Echternach
79
21
Willibrord
79
1
Alcuin
80
1
The Vita Willibrordi and its audience
81
2
Preaching and miracles
83
2
796
85
1
Alcuin and Boniface
86
3
Echternach and the Saxon mission
89
1
The Vita Willehadi
90
1
Anglo-Saxon missionaries on the continent
91
1
Wulfram of Sens
92
8
Utrecht and Munster
100
23
Liudger and Boniface
100
2
The Vita Altera Bonifatii
102
5
Liudger and Gregory
107
1
Liudger
108
3
The purpose of the Vita Gregorii
111
2
Altfrid's Vita Liudgeri
113
2
Vita Lebuini Antiqua
115
8
Hamburg and Bremen
123
20
Anskar
123
2
Rimbert's Vita Anskarii: sources and audience
125
2
Visions
127
2
Miracles
129
3
Anskar's Miracula Willehadi
132
1
Rimbert and Anskar
132
2
The Vita Rimberti
134
2
The end of a tradition
136
7
PART 3 BAVARIANS, SLAVS AND SAXONS
143
102
Salzburg and Freising in the Eighth Century
145
23
Virgil of Salzburg
145
1
The representation of Rupert of Salzburg
146
4
Arbeo of Freising's Lives of Emmeram and Corbinian
150
3
Politics and Arbeo's Lives
153
1
Religious purposes in Arbeo's Lives
154
1
The literary form of Arbeo's Lives
155
1
The oddities of Arbeo's Lives
155
1
The context of Arbeo's Lives: the date
156
1
Willibald and Arbeo
157
1
The Bavarian past
158
1
Mission
159
1
The Passio Kiliani: consensus in Wurzburg?
160
8
Ninth-Century Salzburg
168
19
The narrative of the Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum
168
3
Missionary history as legal history
171
2
Constantine and Methodius
173
3
Ermenrich of Passau and the attitude of the Bavarian Church
176
2
Nicolas I and the papal involvement in mission
178
1
The letter of Theotmar
179
8
The Latin Legends of Wenceslas
187
20
Early Christian Bohemia
187
1
Christian's Vita et Passio sancti Wenceslai et sancte Ludmile ave eius
188
4
The sources
192
2
Saxony and Bohemia
194
1
Gumpold and Otto II
195
3
Adalbert of Prague and the cult of Wenceslas
198
1
The Passio Wenceslai Regis of Laurentius of Montecassino
199
8
Adalbert of Prague
207
19
The career of Adalbert of Prague
207
4
The beginnings of the cult
211
1
Adalbert
212
3
Adalbert and his biographers
215
11
Bruno of Querfurt
226
19
The sources for Bruno of Querfurt
226
1
Saxony, Poland and Bohemia in the lifetime of Bruno
227
4
The career of Bruno of Querfurt
231
2
The Life of the Five Brothers
233
3
The letter to Henry II
236
3
Bruno and mission
239
6
PART 4 CONCLUSION
245
27
The Missionary, the `Familiar' and the `Other'
247
25
`Missionary hagiography'
247
1
Audiences and intentions
248
2
The `Other': imagined and real
250
3
Paganisms and superstitions
253
3
Strategies of mission
256
2
Strategies of survival, new and familiar
258
3
Visions as spiritual consolation
261
1
The shift in the miraculous
262
2
Confessional writing
264
1
Hagiography and the history of mission
265
7
Bibliography of works cited
272
17
Maps
289
10
Index
299