| Description |
x, 298 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Christian saints -- Cult -- History of doctrines -- Early church, approximately 30-600.
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Christian saints -- Cult -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Muslim saints -- Cult -- History of doctrines.
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Brown, Peter Robert Lamont.
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| Added Author |
Hayward, Paul Antony.
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Howard-Johnston, J. D.
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| ISBN |
0199253544 (pbk.) |
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9780199253548 (pbk.) |
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