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 Boniface, OSB ( la, Bonifatius; 675 – 5 June 754) was an English Benedictines, Benedictine monk and leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of the Frankish Empire during the eighth century. He organised significant ...

. A student of

Hubert Mordek Hubert Mordek (8 May 1939, Namslau - 17 March 2006, Karlsbad-Langensteinbach) was a German historian. Biography Mordek studied history, Latin, and philosophy at the University of Kiel, the University of Würzburg, and the University of Tübing ...

, he is the author of ''Bonifatius und das Sakrileg'' (2004), a study of the saint's influence on the concept of

sacrilege Sacrilege is the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object, site or person. This can take the form of irreverence to sacred persons, places, and things. When the sacrilegious offence is verbal, it is called blasphemy, and when physical ...

in the 8th-century church and afterward. In his study he identifies a number of ''sententiae'' in a Wurzburg manuscript (an important witness for the

Collectio canonum Hibernensis The ''Collectio canonum Hibernensis'' ( en, Irish Collection of Canon law) (or ''Hib'') is a systematic Latin collection of Continental canon law, scriptural and patristic excerpts, and Irish synodal and penitential decrees. ''Hib'' is thought t ...

) as connected to Boniface, proposing the title ''Sententiae Bonifantianae Wirceburgensis'' for the fifty-four ''capitula'' and chapter headings in the manuscript. He has argued for the authenticity of the 716 capitulary of

Pope Gregory II Pope Gregory II ( la, Gregorius II; 669 – 11 February 731) was the bishop of Rome from 19 May 715 to his death.

which invested three papal legates with the organization of the church in Bavaria, and for its close connection to Boniface's sphere of influence. With

and

Klaus Zechiel-Eckes Klaus Zechiel-Eckes (12 May 1959 in Pforzheim – 23 February 2010 in Cologne) was a German historian and medievalist. Klaus Zechiel-Eckes graduated high school in 1978. From 1979 to 1990 he studied history and Romance and Middle Latin philology i ...

he is the editor of the ''

Admonitio generalis The ' is a collection of legislation known as a capitulary issued by Charlemagne in 789, which covers educational and ecclesiastical reform within the Frankish kingdom. Capitularies were used in the Frankish kingdom during the Carolingian dynasty b ...

'', an important Carolingian document.

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