Jonas of Bobbio

Reviews / Votes

Reviews
'There is a richness to the material which O'Hara and Wood have done us a great service in making more accessible.'

Jamie Kreiner, The Medieval Review 'This book is a timely and meaningful contribution to the scholarship on Merovingian Gaul. It is important not only for its accessible translation of a large and difficult corpus of works set against a complicated historical and textual background, but also for its clear synthesis of current scholarship. Finally, it elegantly succeeds in navigating the "Irish" vs. "Frankish" controversy, which seems to have reawakened of late.'

Yaniv Fox, Speculum 'This very welcome new translation is also a highly sophisticated scholarly edition. It is particularly rich in bibliography, with an extensive listing of virtually all the secondary literature on Columban and his times.'

Terrence Kardong, American Benedictine Review 'This very welcome addition to Liverpool University Press's Translated Texts for Historians more than lives up to expectations for this esteemed book series [...] Alexander O'Hara and Ian Wood's volume will be an essential companion for its valuable introduction, detailed footnotes, half-dozen appendices, up-to-date bibliography, and, not least of all, high-quality translation of Jonas's often challenging Latin. [...] In sum, this is an important book, not only for the early medieval texts it makes available to a much wider potential readership but also for the exceptional scholarship that went into the presentation and translation of those texts.'
Westley Follett, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 'Whatever
the final outcome of contemporary debates about Columbanus, 'Columbanian
Monasticism', and the influence of the Irish in continental Europe in the early
Middle Ages, this volume will provide invaluable evidence (for both sides!) for
many years to come.'



Daibhi O Croinin, Early
Medieval Europe 'The publication of an erudite, readable, and heavily annotated translation of Jonas of Bobbio's hagiographical corpus is a cause for celebration. Although one of the recognized classics of seventh-century hagiography, Jonas's Vita Columbani until now has not been available in an unabridged English translation, while the comparatively brief lives of John of Reome and Vedast appear for the very first time in English. [...] O'Hara and Wood thus have produced not only an invaluable teaching resource, but a significant contribution to the new wave of Columbanian studies.'
Gregory I. Halfond, The Mediaeval Journal