Dal Santo

DEBATING THE SAINTS OSBYZ C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 647g
• 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