James Howard-Johnston is University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies, Modern History Faculty, University of OxfordPaul Antony Hayward is Lecturer in History at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

This volume has greatly extended the range of answers ... The essays in this impressive collection revisit, or rediscover, the holy man, over a very wide geographical and chronological range.

• 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. On Defining the Holy Man ; 3. Asceticism and Paideia: Time for Another Function? ; 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 ; 6. DE-MYSTIFYING THE ROLE OF SANCTITY IN WESTERN CHRISTENDOM ; 7. The Origins of the Carolingian Attempt to Regulate the Cult of Saints ; 8. The Missionary Life ; 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 ; 11. PROPHECY AND HOLY MEN IN EARLY ISLAM ; 12. The Etiquette of Devotion in the Islamic Cult of Saints

James Howard-Johnston is University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies, Modern History Faculty, University of OxfordPaul Antony Hayward is Lecturer in History at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

This volume has greatly extended the range of answers ... The essays in this impressive collection revisit, or rediscover, the holy man, over a very wide geographical and chronological range.

• 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. On Defining the Holy Man ; 3. Asceticism and Paideia: Time for Another Function? ; 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 ; 6. DE-MYSTIFYING THE ROLE OF SANCTITY IN WESTERN CHRISTENDOM ; 7. The Origins of the Carolingian Attempt to Regulate the Cult of Saints ; 8. The Missionary Life ; 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 ; 11. PROPHECY AND HOLY MEN IN EARLY ISLAM ; 12. The Etiquette of Devotion in the Islamic Cult of Saints

James Howard-Johnston is University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies, Modern History Faculty, University of OxfordPaul Antony Hayward is Lecturer in History at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

This volume has greatly extended the range of answers ... The essays in this impressive collection revisit, or rediscover, the holy man, over a very wide geographical and chronological range.

• 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. On Defining the Holy Man ; 3. Asceticism and Paideia: Time for Another Function? ; 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 ; 6. DE-MYSTIFYING THE ROLE OF SANCTITY IN WESTERN CHRISTENDOM ; 7. The Origins of the Carolingian Attempt to Regulate the Cult of Saints ; 8. The Missionary Life ; 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 ; 11. PROPHECY AND HOLY MEN IN EARLY ISLAM ; 12. The Etiquette of Devotion in the Islamic Cult of Saints