03800nam 2200625 450 991045600190332120200520144314.00-19-154435-31-280-44607-2(CKB)2460000000006073(EBL)1426684(SSID)ssj0000293155(PQKBManifestationID)12064777(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293155(PQKBWorkID)10274428(PQKB)10137194(MiAaPQ)EBC1426684(Au-PeEL)EBL1426684(CaPaEBR)ebr10768638(CaONFJC)MIL44607(OCoLC)861538543(EXLCZ)99246000000000607319990226d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe 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 HaywardOxford :Oxford University Press,1999.1 online resource (309 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-925354-4 0-19-826978-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Christendom7. The origins of the Carolingian attempt to regulate the cult of saints8. 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; ZThis 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 arChristian saintsCultHistory of doctrinesEarly church, ca. 30-600Christian saintsCultHistory of doctrinesMiddle Ages, 600-1500Muslim saintsCultHistory of doctrinesElectronic books.Christian saintsCultHistory of doctrinesChristian saintsCultHistory of doctrinesMuslim saintsCultHistory of doctrines.235/.2/0902Hayward Paul Antony966163Howard-Johnston J. D966164MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456001903321The cult of saints in late antiquity and the Middle Ages2192491UNINA