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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown
Edited by James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward
308 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-826978-6
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Hardback
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06 January 2000
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- - this book covers a broad range of disciplines in the fields of both religion and history.
- - the cult of saints is treated as more than a Christian phenomenon, is shown to be a key feature throughout the wider Orthodox world of eastern Europe, and especially important to Islam.
- - the contributors adopt an interdisciplinary approach, and avoid jargonistic language
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. The work of Peter Brown, in particular his article, 'The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity', first published in 1971, forms a constant point of reference, acknowledged by the contributors as having irradiated the whole field with fresh, provocative, and illuminating ideas.Readership: Scholars, graduates engaged in advanced research, undergraduates and general readers interested in the Roman empire in late antiquity, early medieval Byzantium, medieval Russia, and early Islam.
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Edited by James Howard-Johnston, University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies, Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford, and Paul Antony Hayward, Junior Research Fellow in Modern History, Jesus College, Oxford
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"Paul Fouracre's paper on the cults of saints in late Merovingian and early Carolingian Francia and Ian Wood's paper on the Vitae of missionaries in the early Middle Ages offer illuminating discussions on the development of cults of saints and the writing of hagiography in the early medieval West." - Scripta Classica Israelica (Yearbook of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies) "Despite their disagreements, these authors pay unanimous tribute to the stimulating and provocative quality of Peter Brown's scholarship. Both their criticism and their praise merit a broad audience." - The Journal of Religion "The essays in this impressive collection revisit, or rediscover, the holy man,
over a very wide geographical and chronological range ... who wants such stories told, and what are saints' lives for? This volume has greatly extended the range of answers." - Gillian Clark, Times Literary Supplement
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James Howard-Johnston: Introduction
Averil Cameron: On Defining the Holy Man
Philip Rousseau: Asceticism and Paideia: Time for Another Function?
Claudia Rapp: 'For Next to God, You are My Salvation': Reflections on the Rise of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity
Paul Magdalino: '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 Hayward: De-mystifying the Role of Sanctity in Western Christendom
Paul Fouracre: The Origins of the Carolingian Attempt to Regulate the Cult of Saints
Ian N. Wood: The Missionary Life
Paul Hollingsworth: The Cult of Saints in Medieval Rus'
Richard M. Price: The Holy Man and Christianization from the Apocryphal Apostles to St Stephen of Perm
Chase Robinson: Prophecy and Holy Men in Early Islam
Josef Meri: The Etiquette of Devotion in the Islamic Cult of Saints
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