The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown

AvJames Howard-Johnston,Paul Antony Hayward

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

This 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 interests and other purposes which were served by hagiographical texts and the cults which they propagated. These themes are explored across a wide range of social and cultural milieux, extending from the late antique east Mediterranean through the early medieval Frankish world and Byzantium to Russia and Islam in the high middle ages. The work of Peter Brown, in particular his article, 'The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity', first published in 1971, forms a constant point of reference, acknowledged by the contributors as having irradiated the whole field with fresh, provocative, and illuminating ideas.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-07-04
Mått:134 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:394 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:308
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199253548

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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.

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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