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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.

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"Few historians have literally created their own periods of inquiry and their own subjects. Brown is one of these exceedingly rare spirits. To him we owe the creation of the age of late antiquity as a standard field of historical inquiry." (New York Review of Books)"

The Cult of the Saints

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 12/11/2014
      ISBN13: 9780226175263, 978-0226175263
      ISBN10: 022617526X
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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "Few historians have literally created their own periods of inquiry and their own subjects. Brown is one of these exceedingly rare spirits. To him we owe the creation of the age of late antiquity as a standard field of historical inquiry." (New York Review of Books)"

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