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Saints and Their Cults
Language: en
Pages: 458
Authors: Stephen Wilson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher: CUP Archive

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This is a paperback edition of a collection of ten papers by different authors on the cult of saints, first published in hard covers in 1983. Six have been tran
Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Margaret Jean Cormack
Categories: Central America
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

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Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World traces the changing significance of a dozen saints and holy sites from the fourth century to the twentieth and from
Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Raymond Van Dam
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-12 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Saints' cults, with their focus on miraculous healings and pilgrimages, were not only a distinctive feature of Christian religion in fifth-and sixth-century Gau
The Cult of the Saints
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Peter Brown
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-12 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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A new edition of the “brilliantly original and highly sophisticated” study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire (Library Journal). In this gr
Promoting the Saints
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Ottó Gecser
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-01 - Publisher: Central European University Press

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The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a fo