The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown,9780198269786

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown

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ISBN13: 9780198269786
ISBN10: 0198269781
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-03-09
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This book of essays explores the characteristic traits and diverse functions of holy men and the fashioning of saints out of a small minority of holy men and other individuals of high social status with more dubious spiritual credentials. These themes are looked at across a wide range of social and cultural milieux. Peter Brown has transformed historians' ways of looking at early Christian saints and his work forms a constant point of reference throughout the book.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations vii
Introduction
1(26)
James Howard-Johnston
PART I The cult of saints in Peter Brown
On defining the holy man
27(18)
Averil Cameron
Ascetics as mediators and as teachers
45(18)
Philip Rousseau
PART II 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
63(20)
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
83(32)
Paul Magdalino
PART III The cult of saints in Western Christendom
Demystifying the role of sanctity in Western Christendom
115(28)
Paul Antony Hayward
The origins of the Carolingian attempt to regulate the cult of saints
143(24)
Paul Fouracre
The missionary Life
167(20)
Ian N. Wood
PART IV The cult of saints in medieval Rus'
Holy men and the transformation of political space in medieval Rus'
187(28)
Paul A. Hollingsworth
The holy man and Christianization from the apocryphal apostles to St Stephen of Perm
215(26)
Richard M. Price
PART V The cult of saints in Islam
Prophecy and holy men in early Islam
241(22)
Chase Robinson
The etiquette of devotion in the Islamic cult of saints
263(24)
Josef W. Meri
The contributors 287(4)
Index 291

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