In Debating the Saints' Cults in the Age of Gregory the Great, Dal
Santo argues that the Dialogues, Pope Gregory the Great's most
controversial work, should be considered from the perspective of a
wide-ranging debate about the saints which took place in early
Byzantine society. Like other contemporary works in Greek and
Syriac, Gregory's text debated the nature and plausibility of the
saints' miracles and the propriety of the saints' cult. Rather than
viewing the early Byzantine world as overwhelmingly pious or
credulous, the book argues that many contemporaries retained the
ability to question and challenge the claims of hagiographers and
other promoters of the saints' miracles. From Italy to the heart of
the Persian Empire at Ctesiphon, a healthy, sceptical, rationalism
remained alive and well. The book's conclusion argues that doubt
towards the saints reflected a current of political dissent in the
late East Roman or Byzantine Empire, where patronage of Christian
saints' shrines was used to sanction imperial autocracy. These
far-reaching debates also re-contextualize the emergence of Islam
in the Near East.
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