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The cult of saints in late antiquity and the Middle Ages : essays on the contribution of Peter Brown
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- Creator
- edited by James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
- Physical Details
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- x, 298 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1383016178, 1280446072, 9781383016178, 9780191544354, 0199253544, 9780198269786, 0191544353, 9781280446078, 0198269781
- OCLC
- ocm40943436, ocn861538543
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Pt. 1. The cult of saints in Peter Brown. On defining the holy man / Averil Cameron ; Ascetics as mediators and as teachers / Philip Rousseau -- pt. 2. The cult of saints in eastern Christendom. 'For next to God, you are my salvation': reflections on the rise of the holy man in late antiquity / Claudia Rapp ; '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 / Paul Magdalino -- pt. 3. The cult of saints in western Christendom. Demystifying the role of sanctity in western Christendom / Paul Antony Hayward ; The origins of the Carolingian attempt to regulate the cult of saints / Paul Fouracre ; The missionary life / Ian N. Wood -- pt. 4. The cult of saints in medieval Rus'. Holy men and the transformation of political space in medieval Rus' / Paul A. Hollingsworth ; The holy man and Christianization from the apocryphal apostles to St Stephen of Perm / Richard M. Price -- pt. 5. The cult of saints in Islam. Prophecy and holy men in early Islam / Chase Robinson ; The etiquette of devotion in the Islamic cult of saints / Josef W. Meri