Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown
James Howard-Johnston (University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies, Modern History Faculty, University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies, Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford),
Paul Antony Hayward (Junior Research Fellow in Modern History, Junior Research Fellow in Modern History, Jesus College, Oxford)
This text examines topics such as the characteristic traits/diverse functions of holy men; the fashioning of saints out of a minority of holy men and other individuals; the literary processes involved in the construction of hagiographical texts; and...