An Age of Saints? - Power, Conflict and Dissent in Early Medieval Christianity

This volume focuses on the strategies through which secular and ecclesiastical authorities throughout the early medieval world shaped and exploited Christian culture in their own interests, and the simultaneous attempts of rivals and sceptics to resist that same process.

About the author

Peter Sarris is Senior Lecturer in Late Roman, Early Medieval and Byzantine History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College.
Matthew dal Santo is Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Phil Booth is Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2011
• EAN: 9789004206601
• ISBN: 978-90-04-20660-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 244 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Brill's the Early Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works