LEADER 03798nam 2200625 450 001 9910780610703321 005 20230422050315.0 010 $a1-383-01617-8 010 $a0-19-154435-3 010 $a1-280-44607-2 035 $a(CKB)2460000000006073 035 $a(EBL)1426684 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000293155 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12064777 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293155 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10274428 035 $a(PQKB)10137194 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1426684 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10768638 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL44607 035 $a(OCoLC)861538543 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1426684 035 $a(EXLCZ)992460000000006073 100 $a19990226d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe cult of saints in late antiquity and the Middle Ages $eessays on the contribution of Peter Brown /$fedited by James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward 210 1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-925354-4 311 $a0-19-826978-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a7. 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; Z 330 $aThis 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 606 $aChristian saints$xCult$xHistory of doctrines$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 606 $aChristian saints$xCult$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aMuslim saints$xCult$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aChristian saints$xCult$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aChristian saints$xCult$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aMuslim saints$xCult$xHistory of doctrines. 676 $a235/.2/0902 701 $aHayward$b Paul Antony$01469585 701 $aHoward-Johnston$b J. D$01469586 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780610703321 996 $aThe cult of saints in late antiquity and the Middle Ages$93681121 997 $aUNINA