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1 online resource (309 pages) |
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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 |
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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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W |
| Summary |
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 spiritual credentials; the literary processes involved in the construction of hagiographical texts; the role of hagiography in the creation and diffusion of cults; and the worldly interestsand other purposes which were served by hagiographical texts and the cults which they propagated. These themes ar |
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Print version record |
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Brown, Peter, 1935-
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| SUBJECT |
Brown, Peter, 1935- fast |
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Christian saints -- Cult -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 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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Christian saints -- Cult -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hayward, Paul Antony
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| ISBN |
9780191544354 |
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0191544353 |
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