The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

by PeterBrown (Author)

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  Paperback
  2014

  $21.27

  Challenges the long-held two-tier idea of religion that separated the religious practices of the sophisticated elites from those of the superstitious masses, instead arguing that the cult of the saints crossed boundaries and played a dynamic part in both the Christian faith and the larger world of late antiquity.