TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarris,Peter
AU  - Dal Santo,Matthew
AU  - Booth,Phil
TI  - An age of saints?: power, conflict, and dissent in early medieval Christianity 
T2  - Brill's series on the early Middle Ages,
SN  - 9789004206601 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - BR163 .A35 2011
U1  - 274/.03 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Christian sociology
KW  - History
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Power (Christian theology)
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Dissenters, Religious
KW  - To 1500
N1  - 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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