An age of saints?
Subtitle: power, conflict, and dissent in early medieval Christianity
By: edited by Peter Sarris, Matthew Dal Santo, Phil Booth
Series: Brill's series on the early Middle Ages -- v. 20; Brill's series on the early Middle Ages -- v. 20.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9789004206601
Subjects: Christian sociology; History; Congresses; Church history
Notes: Based on a symposium held at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Restless peasants and scornful lords: lay hostility to holy men and the church in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / Peter Sarris; title: Methodology, authority and spontaneity: sources of spiritual truthfulness in late antique texts and life / Peter Turner; title: The cult of saints and religious processions in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / Peter Kritzinger; title: Augustine, Donatists and martyrdom / Collin Garbarino; title: Excluded from power? The boundaries of orthodoxy in the works of Athanasius and John of Ephesus / Philip Wood; title: The conversion of King Caleb and the religious and political dynamics of sixth-century Ethiopia and Southern Arabia / Ralph Lee; title: The emergence of martyrs' shrines in late antique Iran: conflict, consensus and communal institutions / Richard Payne; title: Orthodox and heretic in the early Byzantine cult(s) of Saints Cosmas and Damian / Phil Booth; title: The god-protected empire? Scepticism towards the cult of saints in early Byzantium / Matthew Dal Santo; title: Images of authority? Imperial patronage of icons from Justinian II to Leo III / Mike Humphreys; title: Hagiography as an instrument for political claims in Carolingian Northern Italy: the Saint Syrus Dossier (BHL 7976 and 7978) / Giorgia Vocino; title: Relics and texts: hagiography and authority in ninth-century Francia / Gerda Heydemann; title: Conclusion: An age of saints? Power, conflict and dissent in early medieval Christianity / Matthew Dal Santo and Phil Booth.