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Portraits of spiritual authority : religious power in early Christianity, Byzantium, and the Christian Orient
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- Creator
- edited by Jan Willem Drijvers and John W. Watt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Boston : Brill, [1999]
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 227 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9004114599, 9789004114593
- OCLC
- ocm42420727
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Rewriting early Christian history : Augustine's representation of Monica / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Magi and visionaries in Gnosticism / Alastair H.B. Logan -- Spiritual authority and the "heretical" woman : Firmilian's word to the Church in Carthage / Christine Trevett -- Troubled breasts : the Holy Body in Hagiography / Rowan Williams -- Promoting Jerusalem : Cyril and the True Cross / Jan Willem Drijvers -- The life and Lives of Gregory Thaumaturgus / Stephen Mitchell -- Rabbula, Bishop of Edessa : spiritual authority and secular power / Han J.W. Drijvers -- A portrait of John Bar Aphtonia, founder of the Monastery of Qenneshre / John W. Watt -- Babai the Great's Life of George and the propagation of doctrine in the late Sasanian empire / Gerrit J. Reinink -- Spiritual authority and monasticism in Constantinople during the Dark Ages / Peter Hatlie