The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown

ISBN-13: 9780199253548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 308 str.

James Howard-Johnston

Opis

..".despite their disagreements, these authors pay unanimous tribute to the stimulating and provocative quality of Peter Brown's scholarship. Both their criticism and their praise merit a broad audience."--The Journal of Religion
..".the scholarship represented by the individual contributions is of the highest quality...and well worth the read."--History

Recenzje

This volume has greatly extended the range of answers ... The essays in this impressive collection revisit, or rediscover, the holy man, over a very wide geographical and chronological range.

O autorze

James Howard-Johnston is University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies, Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford Paul Antony Hayward is Lecturer in History at the University of Otago, New Zealand.