Based on a symposium held at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Restless peasants and scornful lords: lay hostility to holy men and the church in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / Peter Sarris
Methodology, authority and spontaneity: sources of spiritual truthfulness in late antique texts and life / Peter Turner
The cult of saints and religious processions in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / Peter Kritzinger
Augustine, Donatists and martyrdom / Collin Garbarino
Excluded from power? The boundaries of orthodoxy in the works of Athanasius and John of Ephesus / Philip Wood
The conversion of King Caleb and the religious and political dynamics of sixth-century Ethiopia and Southern Arabia / Ralph Lee
The emergence of martyrs' shrines in late antique Iran: conflict, consensus and communal institutions / Richard Payne
Orthodox and heretic in the early Byzantine cult(s) of Saints Cosmas and Damian / Phil Booth
The god-protected empire? Scepticism towards the cult of saints in early Byzantium / Matthew Dal Santo
Images of authority? Imperial patronage of icons from Justinian II to Leo III / Mike Humphreys
Hagiography as an instrument for political claims in Carolingian Northern Italy: the Saint Syrus Dossier (BHL 7976 and 7978) / Giorgia Vocino
Relics and texts: hagiography and authority in ninth-century Francia / Gerda Heydemann
Conclusion: An age of saints? Power, conflict and dissent in early medieval Christianity / Matthew Dal Santo and Phil Booth.
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An age of saints? : power, conflict, and dissent in early medieval Christianity. ISBN 9789004206601. Published by Brill in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
