| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 223 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Brill's series on the early Middle Ages,
1878-4879 ;
v. 20
|
|
Brill's series on the early Middle Ages ; v. 20.
|
| Note |
Based on a symposium held at Trinity College, Cambridge. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Christian sociology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses.
|
|
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses.
|
|
Christian sociology -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Congresses.
|
|
Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Congresses.
|
| Chronological Term |
30 - 1500 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Conference papers and proceedings.
|
|
History.
|
|
Conference papers and proceedings.
|
| Added Author |
Sarris, Peter.
|
|
Dal Santo, Matthew.
|
|
Booth, Phil, 1981-
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Age of saints? Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004206601 (DLC) 2011010613 (OCoLC)708648142 |
| ISBN |
9789004206601 (electronic book) |
|
9004206604 (electronic book) |
|
9789004206595 (electronic book) |
|
9004206590 (electronic book) |
|
