Matthew Dal Santo

Debating the Saints' Cult in the Age of Gregory the Great

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Produktbeschreibung

In Debating the Saints' Cults in the Age of Gregory the Great, Dal Santo argues that Pope Gregory the Great's Dialogues, which debated the nature and plausibility of the saints' miracles and the propriety of the saints' cult, should be considered from the perspective of a wide-ranging debate which took place in early Byzantine society.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 395
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199646791
• ISBN-10: 0199646791
• Artikelnr.: 35055152

Autorenporträt

Matthew Dal Santo was until recently a research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* List of figures
* Introduction
* Gregory the Great and the saints' cult in late antiquity
* 1: Gregory the Great and Eustratius of Constantinople: the Dialogues
on the Miracles of the Italian Fathers as an apology for the cult of
saints
* 2: The fourth dialogue of Gregory the Great: the early Byzantine
context of a Latin disquisition on the soul
* 3: Contesting the saints' miracles: the witness of early Byzantine
Lives and miracle collections
* 4: The saints' inactivity post mortem: soul sleep and the cult of
saints east of the Euphrates
* Concludion
* Debating the saints cult in the age of Gregory the Great and Muhammad
* Epilogue
* Visualizing the God-guarded empire with the Sinai Icon of the Virgin
and Child
* Appendix
* Anastasius of Sinai and Pseudo-Athanasius: Question and Answer
writers
* Bibliography