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8 - Converting the Kings

Bishops, Saints, and Royal Conversions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2024

Marta Szada
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Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
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Chapter 8 is devoted to the ways in which some Nicene bishops attempted to persuade kings to convert, illustrated by the examples of Avitus of Vienne and Leander of Seville, and to conversion as a political project and as a theme of the ideology and theology of kingship in late sixth-century Visigothic Hispania. Conversion and royal rule in Gaul and Hispania were also linked to another important phenomenon: the cult of saints. Thus, in this chapter three cults that played an important role in Nicene–Homoian relations are analysed: the cults of the apostle Peter in Burgundy, of Martin of Tours in Gaul, and of Eulalia of Mérida in Visigothic Hispania.

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Print publication year: 2024

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  • Converting the Kings
  • Marta Szada, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
  • Book: Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity
  • Online publication: 06 June 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009426435.009
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  • Converting the Kings
  • Marta Szada, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
  • Book: Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity
  • Online publication: 06 June 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009426435.009
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  • Converting the Kings
  • Marta Szada, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
  • Book: Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity
  • Online publication: 06 June 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009426435.009
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