Michael Glatthaar

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Michael Glatthaar
Born (1953-05-03) 3 May 1953 (age 71)
Tettnang, West Germany [1]

Michael Glatthaar (born 3 May 1953) is a German scholar of the Middle Ages, specializing in the documents of the Carolingians and the study of Saint Boniface. A student of Hubert Mordek, [2] he is the author of Bonifatius und das Sakrileg (2004), a study of the saint's influence on the concept of sacrilege [3] in the 8th-century church and afterward. [4] [5] [6] In his study he identifies a number of sententiae in a Wurzburg manuscript (an important witness for the Collectio canonum Hibernensis) as connected to Boniface, proposing the title Sententiae Bonifantianae Wirceburgensis for the fifty-four capitula and chapter headings in the manuscript. [6] He has argued for the authenticity of the 716 capitulary of Pope Gregory II which invested three papal legates with the organization of the church in Bavaria, and for its close connection to Boniface's sphere of influence. [2]

With Hubert Mordek and Klaus Zechiel-Eckes he is the editor of the Admonitio generalis , an important Carolingian document.

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References

  1. "Glatthaar, Michael, Index entry". Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  2. 1 2 Körntgen, L. (2016). "Bonifatius, Bayern und das fränkische Kirchenrecht: Zur Überlieferung des Capitulare Papst Gregors II. für Bayern (716)". In G. Blennemann; C. Kleinjung; T. Kohl (eds.). Konstanz und Wandel: Religiöse Lebensformen im europäischen Mittelalter (in German). Didymos. pp. 33–56. ISBN   9783939020318.
  3. Marchal, Guy P. (2002). "Das vieldeutige Heiligenbild. Bildersturm im Mittelalter". Historische Zeitschrift . New Series (in German). 33: 307–332. JSTOR   20524193.
  4. Jarnut, Jörg (2009). "Michael Glatthaar, Bonifatius und das Sakrileg. Zur politischen Dimension eines Rechtsbegriffs". Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte (in German). 126 (1): 613–615. doi:10.7767/zrgka.2009.95.1.613.
  5. Chandler, Cullen J. (2008). "Reviewed Work: Bonifatius und das Sakrileg: Zur politischen Dimension eines Rechtsbegriffs (Freiburger Beiträge zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte Band 17) by Michael Glatthaar, Hubert Mordek". Mediaevistik. 21. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: 306–308. JSTOR   42586685.
  6. 1 2 Meeder, Sven (2011). "Boniface and the Irish Heresy of Clemens". Church History. 80 (2). American Society of Church History: 251–280. doi:10.1017/s0009640711000035. JSTOR   41240575.