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Military saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200
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ISBN: 9780521195645 0521195640 9781139013864 9781107313828 1107313821 9781107308275 1107308275 9781299257108 1299257100 1139013866 9781107306073 1107306078 1107300991 1107232848 131662935X 1107305357 1107311624 9781107300996 9781107232846 9781107305359 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The rulers of the Byzantine Empire and its commonwealth were protected both by their own soldiers and by a heavenly army: the military saints. The transformation of Saints George, Demetrios, Theodore and others into the patrons of imperial armies was one of the defining developments of religious life under the Macedonian emperors. This book provides a comprehensive study of military sainthood and its roots in late antiquity. The emergence of the cults is situated within a broader social context, in which mortal soldiers were equated with martyrs and martyrs of the early Church recruited to protect them on the battlefield. Dr White then traces the fate of these saints in early Rus, drawing on unpublished manuscripts and other under-utilised sources to discuss their veneration within the princely clan and their influence on the first native saints of Rus, Boris and Gleb, who eventually joined the ranks of their ancient counterparts.


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Saint and nation
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ISBN: 0271078154 9780271078151 0271037733 9780271037738 Year: 2011 Publisher: University Park, Pa. Pennsylvania State University Press

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"Examines the controversy in early seventeenth-century Spain over the elevation of Saint Teresa of Avila to co-patron saint alongside the traditional patron, Santiago. Assesses the crucial role of sanctity in the symbolic representation of the nation in early modern Europe"--

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