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An Age of Saints? : Power, Conflict and Dissent in Early Medieval Christianity.
The papers collected in this volume explore the strategies through which Christian authorities throughout the early medieval world both established and expressed their social position, while at the same time drawing attention to the moments when those same processes were resisted and challenged. Whe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2011.
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| Colección: | Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, 20.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Restless Peasants and Scornful Lords: Lay Hostility to Holy Men and the Church in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; Methodology, Authority and Spontaneity: Sources of Spiritual Truthfulness in Late Antique Texts and Life; The Cult of Saints and Religious Processions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; Augustine, Donatists and Martyrdom; Excluded from Power? The Boundaries of Orthodoxy in the Works of Athanasius and John of Ephesus.
- The Conversion of King Caleb and the Religious and Political Dynamics of Sixth-Century Ethiopia and Southern ArabiaThe Emergence of Martyrs' Shrines In Late Antique Iran: Conflict, Consensus and Communal Institutions; Orthodox and Heretic in the Early Byzantine Cult(s) of Saints Cosmas and Damian; The God-Protected Empire? Scepticism towards the Cult of Saints in Early Byzantium; Images of Authority? Imperial Patronage of Icons from Justinian II to Leo III; Hagiography as an Instrument for Political Claims in Carolingian Northern Italy: The Saint Syrus Dossier (BHL 7976 and 7978).
- Relics and Texts: Hagiography and Authority in Ninth-Century FranciaConclusion: An Age of Saints? Power, Conflict and Dissent in Early Medieval Christianity; Select Bibliography; Index.