Table Of ContentThe Cult of Saints
in Late Antiquity and the
Middle Ages
The Cult of Saints
in Late Antiquity and the
Middle Ages
Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown
Edited by
James Howard-Johnston
and
Paul Antony Hayward
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. Christian saints—Cult—History of doctrines—Early church,
ca. –. . Christian saints—Cult—History of doctrines—Middle
Ages, –. . Muslim saints—Cult—History of doctrines.
. Brown, Peter Robert Lamont. I. Hayward, Paul Antony.
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations vii
. Introduction
James Howard-Johnston
The cult of saints in Peter Brown
. On defining the holy man
Averil Cameron
. Ascetics as mediators and as teachers
Philip Rousseau
The cult of saints in Eastern Christendom
. ‘For next to God, you are my salvation’: reflections
on the rise of the holy man in late antiquity
Claudia Rapp
. ‘What we heard in the Lives of the saints we have
seen with our own eyes’: the holy man as literary
text in tenth-century Constantinople
Paul Magdalino
The cult of saints in Western Christendom
. Demystifying the role of sanctity in Western
Christendom
Paul Antony Hayward
. The origins of the Carolingian attempt to regulate
the cult of saints
Paul Fouracre
. The missionary Life
Ian N. Wood
The cult of saints in medieval Rus’
. Holy men and the transformation of political space
in medieval Rus’
Paul A. Hollingsworth
vi Contents
. The holy man and Christianization from the
apocryphal apostles to St Stephen of Perm
Richard M. Price
The cult of saints in Islam
. Prophecy and holy men in early Islam
Chase Robinson
. The etiquette of devotion in the Islamic cult of saints
Josef W. Meri
The contributors
Index
ABBREVIATIONS
. .
‘A Parting of Ways’ ‘Eastern and Western Christendom in Late
Antiquity: A Parting of the Ways’, in D.
Baker (ed.), The Orthodox Churches and the
West, SCH (Oxford, ), –; repr. in
SH, –
AS Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the
Christianisation of the Roman World, The
Tanner Lectures (Cambridge, )
BS The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual
Renunciation in Early Christianity (London,
)
CS The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in
Latin Christianity, The Haskell Lectures
(Chicago, )
‘Exemplar’ ‘The Saint as Exemplar in Late Antiquity’,
Representations, (), –. Not to be
confused with the abbreviated versions of this
paper which appear under the same title in R.
C. Trexler (ed.), Persons in Groups: Social
Behaviour as Identity Formation in Medieval and
Renaissance Europe, Medieval and Renaissance
Texts and Studies (Binghamton, NY,
), –, and in J. S. Hawley (ed.),
Saints and Virtues (Berkeley and Los Angeles,
), –
‘Holy Man’ ‘The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in
Late Antiquity’, JRS (), –;
repr. in SH –
MLA The Making of Late Antiquity, Carl Newell Jack-
son Lectures (Cambridge, Mass., )
PP Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity:
Towards a Christian Empire, The Curti Lectures
(Madison, Wisc., )
viii Abbreviations
RSoc. Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine
(London, )
RSS Relics and Social Status in the Age of Gregory of
Tours, The Stenton Lecture (Reading,
); repr. in SH –
RWC The Rise of Western Christendom (Oxford,
)
SH Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity(London,
)
‘Syria’ ‘Town, Village and Holy Man: The Case of
Syria’, in D. M. Pippidi (ed.), Assimilation et
résistance à la culture gréco-romaine dans le
monde ancien (Bucharest, ), –;
repr. in SH –
WLA The World of Late Antiquity (London, )
AASS Acta Sanctorum, ed. J. Bolland et al. (Antwerp,
–)
AB Analecta Bollandiana (Brussels, –)
Asceticism V. L. Wimbush and R. Valantasis (eds.),
Asceticism (New York and Oxford, )
Bede, HE Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, ed.
B. Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors, OMT
(Oxford, ; rev. edn., )
BHG F. Halkin (ed.), Bibliotheca Hagiographica
Graeca, SHag. a, vols., rd. edn. (Brussels,
)
BHL Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, SHag. ,
vols. (Brussels, –), with H. Fros (ed.),
Novum Supplementum, SHag. (Brussels,
)
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African
Studies (London, –)
Byzantine Saint S. Hackel (ed.), The Byzantine Saint: University
of Birmingham Fourteenth Symposium of
Byzantine Studies, Studies Supplementary to
Sobornost (London, )
Abbreviations ix
CCSG Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca (Turnhout,
–)
CCSL Corpus Christianorum Series Latina (Turnhout,
–)
CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
(Vienna, –)
CStud. Cistercian Studies Series (Kalamazoo, Mich.,
–)
EI M. Th. Houtsma et al. (eds.), The Encyclopaedia
of Islam, st edn., vols. (Leiden, –)
EI H. A. R. Gibb et al. (eds.), The Encyclopaedia
of Islam, nd edn. (Leiden and London,
–)
HLEUL Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Litera-
ture: English Translations Series (Cambridge,
Mass., –)
JECS Journal of Early Christian Studies (Baltimore,
MD, –)
JRS Journal of Roman Studies (London, –)
JSAI Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam
(Jerusalem, –)
Markus, End R. A. Markus, The End of Ancient Christianity
(Cambridge, )
MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Epp. Epistolae (Berlin, –)
Epp. Sel. Epistolae Selectae in usum
scholarum, vols. (Hanover,
–)
SS rer. Germ. Scriptores rerum Germani-
carum in usum scholarum
separatim editi, vols.
(Hanover, –)
SS rer. Merov. Scriptores rerum Merovingi-
carum, vols. (Hanover and
Leipzig, –)
SS Scriptores, vols. (Hanover
and Leipzig, –)
OMT Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford, –)
PG Patrologiae cursus completus: series graeca, ed.
J.–P. Migne, vols. (Paris, –)
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
