In the shadow of death
Subtitle: Saint Boniface and the conversion of Hessia, 721-54
By: by John-Henry Clay
Series: Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages -- v. 11.; Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages -- v.11.
Publisher: Brepols Pub
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9782503531618
Subjects: Hessians; Religion; History; English Missions; Church history
Other titles: Saint Boniface and the conversion of Hessia, 721-54
Notes: Revision of the author's doctoral thesis.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-471) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foundations. Introduction ; Historiography; title: Context. West Saxon origins ; Hessia on the eve of the Bonifatian mission; title: Mission. The chronology of the Bonifatian mission in Hessia ; Representing the mission ; Experiencing the mission ; Conclusion; title: Appendix. Terms and expressions relating to mission and missionaries in the letters of Boniface and Lul ; Metaphors and motifs used to represent the mission in the letters of Boniface and Lul ; The terms Germania and Germanicum in the letters of Boniface and Lul ; Property held by Hersfeld in Hessia before 775 ; Patrons of Fulda in the Amöneburg district, 750-79.