The Making of a Saint: The Life, Times and Sanctification of Neophytos the Recluse »

A study of how a Byzantine holy man became a saint.

List of plates; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: aims and methods;
Part I. The Life and Times of Neophytos the Recluse:
1. The life of Neophytos;
2. The literary and wider cultural context of Neophytos' writings;
3. Cyprus in the eleventh, twelfth and early thirteenth centuries;
Part II. The Process of Self-Sanctification:
4. Neophytos' conception of sanctity;
5. The self-proclaimed holy man;
Part III. The Social Context of Sanctity:
6. Education;
7. Neophytos' public;
8. Social commentary;
9. Secular politics;
10. Ecclesiastical politics;
Part IV. Saint Neophytos the Recluse:
11. Sanctification; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.