Holiness and Power: Constantinopolitan Holy Men and Authority in the 5th Century 9783110419221, 9783110417074

Holiness and Power: Constantinopolitan Holy Men and Authority in the 5th Century 9783110419221, 9783110417074

The book examines the origins, development, and the role of the monastic movement in the capital of Byzantium. It was in

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Holy Men and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel 9491431900, 9789491431906

The present volume comprises the papers delivered at RICAN 6, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 30-31, 2011. Th

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Power and Authority in British Universities 9780773593442

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Staging Authority: Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe. A Handbook 9783110574012, 9783110571141

Staging Authority: Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe is a comprehensive handbook on how the presentati

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Staging Authority: Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe. A Handbook 9783110574012, 9783110571141

Staging Authority: Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe is a comprehensive handbook on how the presentati

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Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Lives and Their Contexts 0791427161, 9780791427163

This is a collection of essays on the literature of "saints' lives" in Anglo-Saxon literature.

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Teacher of Holiness: The Holy Spirit in Origen's Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans 9781463236038

This book, on the pneumatology of Origen's Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, illustrates the centrality of t

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Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power 0900588462, 9780900588464

René Guénon (18861951) was one of the great luminaries of the twentieth century, whose critique of the modern world has

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Republican Islam: Power and Authority in Iran 9781350987814, 9780857728043

When the Islamic Republic of Iran launched its fully-articulated political agenda in the aftermath of the 1979 revolutio

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Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD80-1000 9781474472739

Basing his work strongly on documentary and archaeological sources, Alfred Smyth covers traditional topics in a thorough

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