The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages : Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown

the cult of saints in late antiquity and the middle ages : essays on the contribution of peter brown

more information about The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages : Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages : Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
This book of essays explores the characteristic traits and diverse functions of holy men and the fashioning of saints out of a small minority of holy men and other individuals of high social status with more dubious spiritual credentials. These themes are looked at across a wide range of
social and cultural milieux. Peter Brown has transformed historians' ways of looking at early Christian saints and his work forms a constant point of reference throughout the book.

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown ,James Howard-Johnston,Paul Antony Hayward,Oxford University Press, USA,0198269781,Christian saints,Christianity - History - Catholic,Christianity - History - General,Cult,Early Church (To 476),Early church, ca. 30-600,History of doctrines,Middle Ages, 600-1500,Muslim saints,Religion,Religion - Classic Works,Specific Members Of Religious Congregations And Orders,World - General,Christian theology,Devotional theology & objects of veneration,Religion & Theology | Comparative Religion | Western,Religion / Church History,Religion: general,World history: c 500 to C 1500

Books Report:

  1. The Early Middle Ages (Turning Points in World History)
  2. The global puzzle: Issues and actors in world politics
  3. The Great Reclothing of Rural England: Petty Chapmen and their Wares in the Seventeenth Century
  4. The History of Ideas (Library of the History of Ideas)
  5. The Library Of Original Sources: 1800-1833
  6. The Longman Companion to America, Russia and the Cold War, 1941-1998 (Longman Companions to History Series)
  7. The Phoenicians and the West : Politics, Colonies and Trade
  8. The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism
  9. The Sound of the Ancestral Ship : Highland Music of West Java
  10. The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States (Woodrow Wilson Center)

Books Report

Books Report

Recommended Books

  1. Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies
  2. The Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui: How to Apply the Secrets of Chinese Wisdom for Health,
  3. I Love Her, But . . .
  4. Divine Economy : Theology and the Market
  5. Financial Management and Decision Making
  6. Insect-Plant Interactions and Induced Plant Defence - No. 223
  7. Gynecological Endoscopic Surgery
  8. Material Inhomogeneities in Elasticity
  9. Murder in the Liberry Building
  10. Outlanders: Purgatory Road
  11. Livestock Protection Dogs: Selection, Care, and Training
  12. Les Liliacees Notecards
  13. Laura Ingalls Wilder Country : The People and places in Laura Ingalls Wilder's life and books
  14. On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
  15. Insects and Human Life