An age of saints? : power, conflict, and dissent in early medieval Christianity /
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston:
Brill,
2011
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| Series: | Brillʹs series on the early Middle Ages : (continuation of The Transformation of the Roman World ;
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Table of Contents:
- Restless peasants and scornful lords: lay hostility to holy men and the church in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / Peter Sarris
- Methodology, authority and spontaneity: sources of spiritual truthfulness in late antique texts and life / Peter Turner
- The cult of saints and religious processions in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / Peter Kritzinger
- Augustine, Donatists and martyrdom / Collin Garbarino
- Excluded from power? The boundaries of orthodoxy in the works of Athanasius and John of Ephesus / Philip Wood
- The conversion of King Caleb and the religious and political dynamics of sixth-century Ethiopia and Southern Arabia / Ralph Lee
- The emergence of martyrsʹ shrines in late antique Iran: conflict, consensus and communal institutions / Richard Payne
- Orthodox and heretic in the early Byzantine cult(s) of Saints Cosmas and Damian / Phil Booth
- The god-protected empire? Scepticism towards the cult of saints in early Byzantium / Matthew Dal Santo
- Images of authority? Imperial patronage of icons from Justinian II to Leo III / Mike Humphreys
- Hagiography as an instrument for political claims in Carolingian Northern Italy: the Saint Syrus Dossier (BHL 7976 and 7978) / Giorgia Vocino
- Relics and texts: hagiography and authority in ninth-century Francia / Gerda Heydemann
- Conclusion: An age of saints? Power, conflict and dissent in early medieval Christianity / Matthew Dal Santo and Phil Booth.