UID:
almahu_9949703531402882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 227 pages)
ISBN:
9789004295919
Series Statement:
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 137
Content:
This volume deals with several figures of spiritual authority in Christianity during late antiquity and the early middle ages, and seeks to illuminate the way in which the struggle for religious influence evolved with changes in church and society. A number of literary portraits are examined, portraits which, in various literary genres, are themselves designed to establish and propagate the authority of the people whose lives and activities they describe. The sequence begins with visionary and prophetic figures of the second and third centuries, proceeds through several testimonies from the fourth century to the power of holy persons, moves on to Syriac portraits of the fifth to seventh centuries, and ends with the demise of the authority of the holy man in the eighth.
Note:
Preliminary material /
,
REWRITING EARLY CHRISTIAN HISTORY; AUGUSTINE'S REPRESENTATION OF MONICA /
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MAGI AND VISIONARIES IN GNOSTICISM /
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SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY AND THE "HERETICAL" WOMAN: FIRMILIAN'S WORD TO THE CHURCH IN CARTHAGE /
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TROUBLED BREASTS: THE HOLY BODY IN HAGIOGRAPHY /
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PROMOTING JERUSALEM: CYRIL AND THE TRUE CROSS /
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THE LIFE AND LIVES OF GREGORY THAUMATURGUS /
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RABBULA, BISHOP OF EDESSA: SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY AND SECULAR POWER /
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A PORTRAIT OF JOHN BAR APHTONIA, FOUNDER OF THE MONASTERY OF QENNESHRE /
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BABAI THE GREAT'S LIFE OF GEORGE AND THE PROPAGATION OF DOCTRINE IN THE LATE SASANIAN EMPIRE /
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SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY AND MONASTICISM IN CONSTANTINOPLE DURING THE DARK AGES (650-800) /
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INDEX /
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RELIGIONS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Portraits of Spiritual Authority: Religious Power in Early Christianity, Byzantium and the Christian Orient Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 1999, ISBN 9789004114593
Language:
English
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