The cult of saints in late antiquity and the Middle Ages :  essays on the contribution of Peter Brown / 
edited by James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  (c)1999. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 298 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>part 1. The cult of saints in Peter Brown. On defining the holy man /  part 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 /  part 3. The cult of saints in western Christendom. Demystifying the role of sanctity in western Christendom /  part 4. The cult of saints in medieval Rus'. Holy men and the transformation of political space in medieval Rus' /  part 5. The cult of saints in Islam. Prophecy and holy men in early Islam /  Averil Cameron ; Ascetics as mediators and as teachers /  Philip Rousseau --  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 --  Paul Antony Hayward ; The origins of the Carolingian attempt to regulate the cult of saints /  Paul Fouracre ; The missionary life /  Ian N. Wood --  Paul A. Hollingsworth ; The holy man and Christianization from the apocryphal apostles to St Stephen of Perm /  Richard M. Price --  Chase Robinson ; The etiquette of devotion in the Islamic cult of saints /  Josef W. Meri. 
<br/><br/> "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 interests and other purposes which were served by hagiographical texts and the cults which they propagated. These themes are explored across a wide range of social and cultural milieux, extending from the late antique east Mediterranean through the early medieval Frankish world and Byzantium to Russia and Islam in the high middle ages."--BOOK JACKET. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780191544354 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Brown, Peter, 1935- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christian saints--Cult--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Christian saints--Cult--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.<br/>Muslim saints--Cult--History of doctrines.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT970  / .C858 1999