The cult of saints in late antiquity and the middle ages

1. INTRODUCTION 2. On Defining the Holy Man 3. Asceticism and Paideia: Time for Another Function? 4. 'FOR NEXT TO GOD, YOU ARE MY SALVATION': REFLECTIONS ON THE RISE OF THE HOLY MAN IN LATE ANTIQUITY 5. '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 6. DE-MYSTIFYING THE ROLE OF SANCTITY IN WESTERN CHRISTENDOM 7. The Origins of the Carolingian Attempt to Regulate the Cult of Saints 8. The Missionary Life 9. HOLY MEN AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL SPACE IN MEDIEVAL RUS' 10. The Holy Man and Christianization from the Apocryphal Apostles to St Stephen of Perm 11. PROPHECY AND HOLY MEN IN EARLY ISLAM 12. The Etiquette of Devotion in the Islamic Cult of Saints

Asceticism · Christianization · Cult · Emperor · Late Antiquity · Paideia · Byzantine Studies and History · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · Christian saints · History of doctrines · Muslim saints · Saints, cult