Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

by Robert Bartlett

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A sweeping, authoritative, and entertaining history of the Christian cult of the saints from its origin to the Reformation

From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints--the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days of the Christian martyrs to the Protestant Reformation. Robert...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691169683

ISBN13:9780691169682

Release Date:September 2015

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:816 Pages

Weight:2.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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