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EBOOK Debating the Saints' Cults in the Age of Gregory the Great
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191626371
EAN: 37C57020EB
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Stron: 416
Data wydania: 2012
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In Debating the Saints' Cults in the Age of Gregory the Great, Dal Santo argues        that the Dialogues, Pope Gregory the Great's most controversial work, should be        considered from the perspective of a wide-ranging debate about the saints which took        place in early Byzantine society. Like other contemporary works in Greek and Syriac,        Gregory's text debated the nature and plausibility of the saints' miracles and the        propriety of the saints' cult. Rather than viewing theearly Byzantine world as        overwhelmingly pious or credulous, the book argues that many contemporaries retained        the ability to question and challenge the claims of hagiographers and other        promoters of the saints' miracles. From Italy to the heart of the Persian Empire at        Ctesiphon, a healthy, sceptical, rationalismremained alive and well. The book's        conclusion argues that doubt towards the saints reflected a current of political        dissent in the late East Roman or Byzantine Empire, where patronage of Christian        saints' shrines was used to sanction imperial autocracy. These far-reaching debates        also re-contextualize the emergence of Islam in the Near East.

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