An age of saints? :
An age of saints? : power, conflict, and dissent in early medieval Christianity /
Power, conflict, and dissent in early medieval Christianity.
edited by Peter Sarris, Matthew Dal Santo, Phil Booth.
- Leiden : Brill, 2011.
- xv, 223 p. ; 25 cm.
- Brill's series on the early Middle Ages, v. 20. 1878-4879 ; .
- Brill's series on the early Middle Ages ; v. 20. .
Based on a graduate symposium held at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-218) and index.
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 martyrs' 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.
9789004206601 (hardback : alk. paper)
2011010613
015790859 Uk
Christian sociology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.
Power (Christian theology)--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.
Christian sociology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.
Power (Christian theology)--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.
Dissenters, Religious--History--To 1500--Congresses.
BR163 / .A35 2011
274/.03
Based on a graduate symposium held at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-218) and index.
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 martyrs' 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.
9789004206601 (hardback : alk. paper)
2011010613
015790859 Uk
Christian sociology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.
Power (Christian theology)--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.
Christian sociology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.
Power (Christian theology)--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.
Dissenters, Religious--History--To 1500--Congresses.
BR163 / .A35 2011
274/.03