An Age of Saints? (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages) (repost)
Peter Sarris, "An Age of Saints? (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages)"
Publisher: BRILL | ISBN 10: 9004206604 | 2011 | PDF | 256 pages | 1.5 MB
Publisher: BRILL | ISBN 10: 9004206604 | 2011 | PDF | 256 pages | 1.5 MB
The papers collected in this volume explore the strategies through which Christian authorities throughout the early medieval world both established and expressed their social position, while at the same time drawing attention to the moments when those same processes were resisted and challenged. Where previous studies of Christianisation have for the most part approached the issue of dissent through the continued existence of paganism and the various Christian heresies, this volume suggests that the experience of doubt towards, and articulation of resistance to, the claims of Christian leaders extended far outside the circles of pagan intellectuals and dissident theologians.