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Author:   Peter Sarris ,  Matthew Dal Santo ,  Phil Booth
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.545kg
ISBN:  

9789004206601

ISBN 10:   9004206604
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   24 June 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ... vii List of Abbreviations ... ix Notes on Contributors ... xi Preface ... xiii 1. Restless Peasants and Scornful Lords: Lay Hostility to Holy Men and the Church in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ... 1 Peter Sarris 2. Methodology, Authority and Spontaneity: Sources of Spiritual Truthfulness in Late Antique Texts and Life ... 11 Peter Turner 3. The Cult of Saints and Religious Processions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ... 36 Peter Kritzinger 4. Augustine, Donatists and Martyrdom ... 49 Collin Garbarino 5. Excluded from Power? The Boundaries of Orthodoxy in the Works of Athanasius and John of Ephesus ... 62 Philip Wood 6. The Conversion of King Caleb and the Religious and Political Dynamics of Sixth-Century Ethiopia and Southern Arabia ... 77 Ralph Lee 7. The Emergence of Martyrs’ Shrines In Late Antique Iran: Conflict, Consensus and Communal Institutions ... 89 Richard Payne 8. Orthodox and Heretic in the Early Byzantine Cult(s) of Saints Cosmas and Damian ... 114 Phil Booth 9. The God-Protected Empire? Scepticism towards the Cult of Saints in Early Byzantium ... 129 Matthew Dal Santo 10. Images of Authority? Imperial Patronage of Icons from Justinian II to Leo III ... 150 Mike Humphreys 11. Hagiography as an Instrument for Political Claims in Carolingian Northern Italy: The Saint Syrus Dossier (BHL 7976 and 7978) ... 169 Giorgia Vocino 12. Relics and Texts: Hagiography and Authority in Ninth-Century Francia ... 187 Gerda Heydemann 13. Conclusion: An Age of Saints? Power, Conflict and Dissent in Early Medieval Christianity ... 205 Matthew Dal Santo and Phil Booth Select Bibliography ... 215 Index ... 219

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Peter Sarris is Senior Lecturer in Late Roman, Early Medieval and Byzantine History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. Matthew dal Santo is Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. Phil Booth is Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford.

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