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Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Paperback. Very fine with personal owner initials.. Octavo in dark green illus wrap; x, 298 pages ; 23 cm. "This book contains eleven essays, prefaced by a general introduction, on a set of related themes: the characteristic traits and diverse functions of holy men; the fashioning of saints out of a small minority of holy men and a number of other individuals of high social status but with more dubious spiritual credentials; the literary processes involved in the construction of hagiographical texts; the role of hagiography in the creation and diffusion of cults; and the worldly interests and other purposes which were served by hagiographical texts and the cults which they propagated. These themes are explored across a wide range of social and cultural milieux, extending from the late antique east Mediterranean through the early medieval Frankish world and Byzantium to Russia and Islam in the high middle ages."--Jacket / Contents: pt. 1. The cult of…
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Hardcover. Very good/Good . 8vo. x, 298 p. Edgewear to the dust-jacket, couple small tears to the edges, closed tear (1cm) to the top edge, and is now in a protective jacket. Pencil notes in the margin of the itroduction. Footnotes with references. Contents: Introduction -- On defining the holy man -- Ascetics as mediators and as teachers -- 'For next to God, you are my salvation' : reflections on the rise of the holy man in late antiquity -- '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 --Demystifying the role of sanctity in Western Christendom -- The origins of the Carolingian attempt to regulate the cult of saints -- The missionary life -- Holy men and the transformation of political space in medieval Rus' --The holy man and the Christianization from the apocryphal apostles to St. Stephen of Perm -- Prophecy and the holy men in Islam --The etiquette of devotion in the Islamic cult of saints
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- Keywords CHRISTIAN SAINTS, MUSLIM SAINTS, THEOLOGY, CULT HISTORY OF DOCTRINES
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