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Biography. Abbazia di San Colombano, Bobbio. Jonas was born in Susa, Piedmont. In 618, Jonas arrived at the Abbey of St. Columbanus at Bobbio in the province of Pavia. He was soon appointed archivist and personal secretary to the abbot Attala (died 627) and later, to his successor Bertulf.
May 30, 2020 · Building on two previous volumes, an annotated translation of Jonas’s three saints’ Lives and a volume of essays arising from a conference of 2013, he aims in the current volume to demonstrate how Jonas’s Life of Columbanus reflects the many changes and crises that had taken place at Bobbio and more widely in Merovingian Gaul and Lombard ...
- Margaret Coombe
- 2020
views 3,814,295 updated. JONAS OF BOBBIO. Hagiographer; b. Susa, in Piedmont, c. 600; d. after 665. He entered the abbey of bobbio in 618, about three years after the death of the Irish missionary abbot, columban. Here Jonas served as secretary to abbots athala of bobbio (d. 626) and bertulf of bobbio (d.639).
Sep 3, 2019 · Preview. In this interesting book, Alexander O’Hara manages to juggle three demanding topics: Jonas of Bobbio’s strategies as a hagiographer exhibited in his famous Vita Columbani; the religious thought and achievement of Columbanus based on Columbanus’s own writings; and the concept of monastic spirituality in the seventh century.
Jonas (d. p. 659), monk and biographer of Columbanus (qv), Atalanus, and later abbots of Bobbio, was born at Susa, Piedmont in northern Italy. He entered Bobbio c. 617/18 and remained there till c. 640, serving under Abbots Atalanus and Bertulf. He also spent some time at the monasteries of Luxeuil and Faremoutiers.
Jun 21, 2018 · Abstract. Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid-seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author but also a historic figure in his own right. Born in the ancient Roman town of Susa in the foothills of the Italian Alps, he became a monk of Bobbio, the monastery founded by the Irish abbot Columbanus, soon after the saint’s death.
This book, the first major study devoted to Jonas of Bobbio, his corpus of three saints' Lives, and the Columbanian familia, explores the development of the Columbanian monastic network and...
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