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.

• Introduction ; On Defining the Holy Man ; Asceticism and Paideia: Time for Another Function? ; 'For Next to God, You are My Salvation': Reflections on the Rise of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity ; '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 ; De-mystifying the Role of Sanctity in Western Christendom ; The Origins of the Carolingian Attempt to Regulate the Cult of Saints ; The Missionary Life ; The Cult of Saints in Medieval Rus' ; The Holy Man and Christianization from the Apocryphal Apostles to St Stephen of Perm ; Prophecy and Holy Men in Early Islam ; The Etiquette of Devotion in the Islamic Cult of Saints

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.

• Introduction ; On Defining the Holy Man ; Asceticism and Paideia: Time for Another Function? ; 'For Next to God, You are My Salvation': Reflections on the Rise of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity ; '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 ; De-mystifying the Role of Sanctity in Western Christendom ; The Origins of the Carolingian Attempt to Regulate the Cult of Saints ; The Missionary Life ; The Cult of Saints in Medieval Rus' ; The Holy Man and Christianization from the Apocryphal Apostles to St Stephen of Perm ; Prophecy and Holy Men in Early Islam ; The Etiquette of Devotion in the Islamic Cult of Saints

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.

• Introduction ; On Defining the Holy Man ; Asceticism and Paideia: Time for Another Function? ; 'For Next to God, You are My Salvation': Reflections on the Rise of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity ; '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 ; De-mystifying the Role of Sanctity in Western Christendom ; The Origins of the Carolingian Attempt to Regulate the Cult of Saints ; The Missionary Life ; The Cult of Saints in Medieval Rus' ; The Holy Man and Christianization from the Apocryphal Apostles to St Stephen of Perm ; Prophecy and Holy Men in Early Islam ; The Etiquette of Devotion in the Islamic Cult of Saints