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The cult of saints in late antiquity and the Middle Ages : essays on the contribution of Peter Brown / edited by James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brown, Peter, 1935-.
- Brown, Peter.
- Christian saints--Cult--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Christian saints.
- Christian saints--Cult--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Over the last 40 years, Peter Brown has transformed historians' ways of looking at early Christian saints, with a new, anthropologically oriented approach. This book tests and modifies his ideas in novel ways.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; PART I: The cult of saints in Peter Brown; 2. On defining the holy man; 3. Ascetics as mediators and as teachers; PART II: The cult of saints in Eastern Christendom; 4. 'For next to God, you are my salvation': reflections on the rise of the holy man in late antiquity; 5. 'What we heard in the Lives of the saints we have seen with our own eyes': the holy man as literary text in tenth-century Constantinople; PART III: The cult of saints in Western Christendom; 6. Demystifying the role of sanctity in Western Christendom
- 7. The origins of the Carolingian attempt to regulate the cult of saints8. The missionary Life; PART IV: The cult of saints in medieval Rus'; 9. Holy men and the transformation of political space in medieval Rus'; 10. The holy man and Christianization from the apocryphal apostles to St Stephen of Perm; PART V: The cult of saints in Islam; 11. Prophecy and holy men in early Islam; 12. The etiquette of devotion in the Islamic cult of saints; The contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-01617-8
- 0-19-154435-3
- 1-280-44607-2
- OCLC:
- 861538543
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