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An age of saints? : power, conflict, and dissent in early medieval Christianity / edited by Peter Sarris, Matthew Dal Santo, Phil Booth.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's series on the early Middle Ages ; v. 20.Publication details: Leiden : Brill, 2011.Description: xv, 223 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9789004206601 (hardback : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Power, conflict, and dissent in early medieval Christianity
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 274/.03 22
LOC classification:
  • BR163 .A35 2011
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 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.
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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.

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