Portraits of spiritual authority : religious power in early Christianity, Byzantium, and the Christian Orient /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1999. |
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| Description: | xiii, 227 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman world v. 137 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4114671 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. People and Portraits. Rewriting Early Christian History: Augustine's Representation of Monica / Elizabeth A. Clark
- Pt. 2. The Struggle for Authority. Magi and Visionaries in Gnosticism / Alastair H. B. Logan. Spiritual Authority and the "Heretical" Woman: Firmilian's Word to the Church in Carthage / Christine Trevett. Troubled Breasts: The Holy Body in Hagiography / Rowan Williams. Promoting Jerusalem: Cyril and the True Cross / Jan Willem Drijvers
- Pt. 3. The Representation of Authority. The Life and Lives of Gregory Thaumaturgus / Stephen Mitchell. Rabbula, Bishop of Edessa: Spiritual Authority and Secular Power / Han J. W. Drijvers. A Portrait of John Bar Aphtonia, Founder of the Monastery of Qenneshre / John W. Watt. Babai the Great's Life of George and the Propagation of Doctrine in the Late Sasanian Empire / Gerrit J. Reinink. Spiritual Authority and Monasticism in Constantinople during the Dark Ages (650-800) / Peter Hatlie.