Peter Brown's The Cult of the Saints, University of Chicago Press, 1981, is a scholarly study. Its strength is that it is a genuinely influential work that reshaped how historians understand the rise of saint veneration in Latin Christianity, moving the field away from older, more dismissive readings of the practice. Its limit is the ordinary one for a landmark study now over four decades old: later scholarship has built on it and in places qualified it, so it is best read as the foundation of a still active field rather than its final word.
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Reliability tier 1: a genuinely influential scholarly monograph from a university press that reshaped its field, the foundation of a still active area of study. NotesPeter Brown's influential scholarly study of the cult of the saints in Latin Christianity, University of Chicago Press, 1981.
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AuthorPeter Brown
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Publication Year1981
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Source The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin ChristianityPeter Brown
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Religious Roles & Titles, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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