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标题：Michel Aaij / Shannon Godlove (eds.): A Companion to Boniface
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作者：Richard Broome
期刊名称：Sehepunkte : Rezensionsjournal für Geschichtswissenschaften
电子版ISSN：1618-6168
出版年度：2021
卷号：21
期号：3
语种：German
出版社：Herder-Institut, Institut für Zeitgeschichte
摘要：Saint Boniface looms large in studies of the eighth century. His multi-faceted career makes him a figure of interest for historians of mission, the episcopacy, monastic foundations, and the church reforms that preceded and accompanied the so-called Carolingian Renaissance. Not only did his career touch on most of the religious issues of his day, the work of his disciples means modern scholars have access to a good number of primary sources, which shed light on the saint's life and afterlife. The most important of these sources are, of course, the collection of letters associated with the saint - substantial by early medieval standards, if by no means complete - and the Vita Bonifatii composed by Willibald no more than fifteen years after the saint's death. These sources are not without their historiographical problems, but they allow scholars vital insights into the mind of the man himself and those who sought to determine the nature of his commemoration.