Answers and echoes: the Libellus responsionum and the hagiography of north-western European mission
Bill Friesen
This article examines three aspects of Augustine Canterbury's Libellus responsionum. Through recent scholarship it provides a summary the Libellus's textual context. It also clarifies very contentious issue just how familiar was to missionaries, not only those preaching in England but on Continent, and specifically Canterbury Boniface. Finally, light pastoral circumstances, explores largely neglected question may (or not) have illuminated various literary features strata Augustinian Bonifatian biography.
Early Medieval Europe