The cult of saints in late antiquity and the Middle Ages: essays on the contribution of Peter Brown

Pt. 1. The cult of saints in Peter Brown. On defining the holy man / Averil Cameron ; Ascetics as mediators and as teachers / Philip Rousseau

pt. 2. The cult of saints in eastern Christendom. 'For next to God, you are my salvation': reflections on the rise of the holy man in late antiquity / Claudia Rapp ; 'What we heard in the lives of the saints we have seen with our own eyes': the holy man as literary text in tenth-century Constantinople / Paul Magdalino

pt. 3. The cult of saints in western Christendom. Demystifying the role of sanctity in western Christendom / Paul Antony Hayward ; The origins of the Carolingian attempt to regulate the cult of saints / Paul Fouracre ; The missionary life / Ian N. Wood

pt. 4. The cult of saints in medieval Rus'. Holy men and the transformation of political space in medieval Rus' / Paul A. Hollingsworth ; The holy man and Christianization from the apocryphal apostles to St Stephen of Perm / Richard M. Price

pt. 5. The cult of saints in Islam. Prophecy and holy men in early Islam / Chase Robinson ; The etiquette of devotion in the Islamic cult of saints / Josef W. Meri.