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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages : Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown.
This book contains eleven essays, prefaced by a general introduction, on a set of related themes: the characteristic traits and diverse functions of holy men; the fashioning of saints out of a small minority of holy men and a number of other individuals of high social status but with more dubious sp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 saints
- 8. 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
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- C
- D
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- F
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