Interacting with saints in the Late Antique and medieval worlds

• Titel: Interacting with saints in the Late Antique and medieval worlds
• Mitwirkende: Wiśniewski, Robert [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Van Dam, Raymond [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Ward-Perkins, Bryan [HerausgeberIn]
• Körperschaft: Conference on The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity <2018, Warschau> [VerfasserIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Robert Wiśniewski, Raymond Van Dam and Bryan Ward-Perkins
• Verlagsort: Turnhout
• Verlag: Brepols
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: 282 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Hagiologia ; volume 20
• Schrift/Sprache: Beiträge überwiegend englisch, teilweise französisch
• ISBN: 978-2-503-60558-6
• ISBN: 2-503-60558-3
• Schlagwörter: (s)Heilige / (s)Spätantike / (s)Mittelalter
• Dokumenttyp: Konferenzschrift: (2018 : Warschau)
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng fre
• K10plus-PPN: 1839714077

Abstract

The cult of saints is one of the most fascinating religious developments of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Christians admired martyrs already in the second century, but for a long time they perceived them only as examples to follow and believed they could pray directly to God, whom they addressed as ?Our Father?.00A new attitude toward saints, now considered above all as powerful friends of God and efficient intercessors, started to emerge in the third century. Once this process gained momentum in the Constantinian era, the cult of saints constantly changed and rapidly adapted to new conditions and demands. This evolution highlighted many factors: the popularity of specific saints and the different types of sanctity, the spread of cults and customs, and the ways in which the saints were described, visualised, and represented.00This volume seeks to capture the dynamic of these adaptations, showing both those aspects of cult which evolved quickly and those which remained stable for a long time. It studies the evolution of the cults in a broad period from the third to the seventh centuries and in various regions from Gaul to Georgia, with a particular interest in the two greatest centres of the cult of saints: Rome and Constantinople. In response to changing needs and different circumstances, new generations of believers repeatedly modified the cults of established saints, even as they introduced new saints