Acknowledgements
List of figures
Introduction
Gregory the Great and the saints' cult in late antiquity
1: Gregory the Great and Eustratius of Constantinople: the
Dialogues on the Miracles of the Italian Fathers as an apology for
the cult of saints
2: The fourth dialogue of Gregory the Great: the early Byzantine
context of a Latin disquisition on the soul
3: Contesting the saints' miracles: the witness of early Byzantine
Lives and miracle collections
4: The saints' inactivity post mortem: soul sleep and the cult of
saints east of the Euphrates
Concludion
Debating the saints cult in the age of Gregory the Great and
Muhammad
Epilogue
Visualizing the God-guarded empire with the Sinai Icon of the
Virgin and Child
Appendix
Anastasius of Sinai and Pseudo-Athanasius: Question and Answer
writers
Bibliography
Matthew Dal Santo was until recently a research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dal Santos book provides an important corrective to the commonly
held view that saints were an uncontested feature of social and
religious life at the end of Late Antiquity.
*DIRK KRAUSMÜLLER, English Historical Review*
Dal Santo draws valuable attention in this book to a set of
contemporary arguments which concerned one of the key developments
of the period, the cult of saints.
*Averil Cameron, The Journal of Theological Studies*
This is a wonderful, rich and thought-provoking book that offers a
new and refreshing perspective on a well-known theme in medieval
history: the cults of the saints ... His book is of great interest
to all those interested in saints cults, eschatology, and early
medieval ideas about the human body and psychology.
*Janneke Raaijmakers, Early Medieval Europe*
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