The missionary life

• List of Maps
• p. ix

• Preface
• p. xi

• Part 1
• Introductory
• p. 1

• 1
• The Christianisation of Europe, 400-100
• p. 3

• 1.
• Christianisation and mission
• p. 3

• 2.
• Paganism
• p. 5

• 3.
• The Christian Empire
• p. 6

• 4.
• The barbarians
• p. 7

• 5.
• England
• p. 9

• 6.
• The borders of Francia
• p. 10

• 7.
• The Slavs of Carinthia, Moravia and Bohemia
• p. 13

• 8.
• Scandinavians
• p. 14

• 9.
• Unfinished business
• p. 17

• 10.
• The documentation of missionaries
• p. 18

• 2
• From Patrick to Bede
• p. 25

• 1.
• Narrating mission
• p. 25

• 2.
• Patrick
• p. 26

• 3.
• Sulpicius Severus and paganism in the Vita Martini
• p. 28

• 4.
• Gregory of Langres and Gregory of Tours
• p. 29

• 5.
• Columbanus and Jonas of Bobbio
• p. 31

• 6.
• Jonas, Bobbio and Luxeuil
• p. 35

• 7.
• Amandus
• p. 39

• 8.
• Bede
• p. 42

• 9.
• Ecgbert and Wilfrid
• p. 43

• 10.
• The impact of the Historia Ecclesiastica
• p. 44

• Part 2
• The Anglo-Saxons and Their Legacy
• p. 55

• 3
• Boniface, Mainz and Fulda
• p. 57

• 1.
• Politics and Christianisation in the eighth century
• p. 57

• 2.
• Boniface
• p. 58

• 3.
• Willibald's Vita Bonifatii
• p. 61

• 4.
• Boniface in the works of Hygeburg of Heidenheim
• p. 64

• 5.
• Wigbert and Lupus of Ferrieres
• p. 66

• 6.
• Rudolf of Fulda's Life of Leoba
• p. 67

• 7.
• Eigil, Boniface and Sturm
• p. 68

• 8.
• The 'heirs' of Boniface
• p. 72

• 4
• Alcuin and Echternach
• p. 79

• 1.
• Willibrord
• p. 79

• 2.
• Alcuin
• p. 80

• 3.
• The Vita Willibrordi and its audience
• p. 81

• 4.
• Preaching and miracles
• p. 83

• 5.
• 796
• p. 85

• 6.
• Alcuin and Boniface
• p. 86

• 7.
• Echternach and the Saxon mission
• p. 89

• 8.
• The Vita Willehadi
• p. 90

• 9.
• Anglo-Saxon missionaries on the continent
• p. 91

• 10.
• Wulfram of Sens
• p. 92

• 5
• Utrecht and Munster
• p. 100

• 1.
• Liudger and Boniface
• p. 100

• 2.
• The Vita Altera Bonifatii
• p. 102

• 3.
• Liudger and Gregory
• p. 107

• 4.
• Liudger
• p. 108

• 5.
• The purpose of the Vita Gregorii
• p. 111

• 6.
• Altfrid's Vita Liudgeri
• p. 113

• 7.
• Vita Lebuini Antiqua
• p. 115

• 6
• Hamburg and Bremen
• p. 123

• 1.
• Anskar
• p. 123

• 2.
• Rimbert's Vita Anskarii: sources and audience
• p. 125

• 3.
• Visions
• p. 127

• 4.
• Miracles
• p. 129

• 5.
• Anskar's Miracula Willehadi
• p. 132

• 6.
• Rimbert and Anskar
• p. 132

• 7.
• The Vita Rimberti
• p. 134

• 8.
• The end of a tradition
• p. 136

• Part 3
• Bavarians, Slavs and Saxons
• p. 143

• 7
• Salzburg and Freising in the Eighth Century
• p. 145

• 1.
• Virgil of Salzburg
• p. 145

• 2.
• The representation of Rupert of Salzburg
• p. 146

• 3.
• Arbeo of Freising's Lives of Emmeram and Corbinian
• p. 150

• 4.
• Politics and Arbeo's Lives
• p. 153

• 5.
• Religious purposes in Arbeo's Lives
• p. 154

• 6.
• The literary form of Arbeo's Lives
• p. 155

• 7.
• The oddities of Arbeo's Lives
• p. 155

• 8.
• The context of Arbeo's Lives: the date
• p. 156

• 9.
• Willibald and Arbeo
• p. 157

• 10.
• The Bavarian past
• p. 158

• 11.
• Mission
• p. 159

• 12.
• The Passio Kiliani: consensus in Wurzburg?
• p. 160

• 8
• Ninth-Century Salzburg
• p. 168

• 1.
• The narrative of the Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum
• p. 168

• 2.
• Missionary history as legal history
• p. 171

• 3.
• Constantine and Methodius
• p. 173

• 4.
• Ermenrich of Passau and the attitude of the Bavarian Church
• p. 176

• 5.
• Nicolas I and the papal involvement in mission
• p. 178

• 6.
• The letter of Theotmar
• p. 179

• 9
• The Latin Legends of Wenceslas
• p. 187

• 1.
• Early Christian Bohemia
• p. 187

• 2.
• Christian's Vita et Passio sancti Wenceslai et sancte Ludmile ave eius
• p. 188

• 3.
• The sources
• p. 192

• 4.
• Saxony and Bohemia
• p. 194

• 5.
• Gumpold and Otto II
• p. 195

• 6.
• Adalbert of Prague and the cult of Wenceslas
• p. 198

• 7.
• The Passio Wenceslai Regis of Laurentius of Montecassino
• p. 199

• 10
• Adalbert of Prague
• p. 207

• 1.
• The career of Adalbert of Prague
• p. 207

• 2.
• The beginnings of the cult
• p. 211

• 3.
• Adalbert
• p. 212

• 4.
• Adalbert and his biographers
• p. 215

• 11
• Bruno of Querfurt
• p. 226

• 1.
• The sources for Bruno of Querfurt
• p. 226

• 2.
• Saxony, Poland and Bohemia in the lifetime of Bruno
• p. 227

• 3.
• The career of Bruno of Querfurt
• p. 231

• 4.
• The Life of the Five Brothers
• p. 233

• 5.
• The letter to Henry II
• p. 236

• 6.
• Bruno and mission
• p. 239

• Part 4
• Conclusion
• p. 245

• 12
• The Missionary, the 'Familiar' and the 'Other'
• p. 247

• 1.
• 'Missionary hagiography'
• p. 247

• 2.
• Audiences and intentions
• p. 248

• 3.
• The 'Other': imagined and real
• p. 250

• 4.
• Paganisms and superstitions
• p. 253

• 5.
• Strategies of mission
• p. 256

• 6.
• Strategies of survival, new and familiar
• p. 258

• 7.
• Visions as spiritual consolation
• p. 261

• 8.
• The shift in the miraculous
• p. 262

• 9.
• Confessional writing
• p. 264

• 10.
• Hagiography and the history of mission
• p. 265

• Bibliography of works cited
• p. 272

• Maps
• p. 289

• Index
• p. 299