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COMMUNICATING THE FAITH. THE CIRCLE OF BONIFACE, GERMANIC VERNACULARS, AND FRISIAN AND SAXON CONVERTS.

The early medieval Anglo-Saxon missionaries working in the northern Low Countries left traces of their ways of communicating the faith in the descriptions in hagiographical texts produced in the diocese of Utrecht between the eighth and the twelfth centuries, in the vocabulary of the Germanic dialec...

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Published in:Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Älteren Germanistik Vol. 70; pp. 87 - 131
Main Author: Mostert, Marco
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2013
Subjects:
Missionaries
Anglo-Saxons
History of the Netherlands
Hagiography
Germanic languages
Conversion to Christianity
Linguistic change
Boniface, Saint, Archbishop of Mainz, ca. 675-754
History
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