Hello, I don't know if this is the right place to look but I am having some trouble. I will be upfront and admit, this is for a research paper. My professor requires us to have a certain amount of journal articles, books, and primary sources each. I'm mostly set on primary sources and journal articles, but I'm having a hard time on books. I've noticed that Peter Brown seems to be a well respected historian regarding religion in late antiquity but I was wondering if there were any other authors or books that I should take a look at.

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For more specifics, I want to encapsulate what led to the rise of the holy man and how they grew to be as powerful as the emperor which is where I'm having trouble. There's plenty of sources detailing how bishops helped the communities they were involved in and how they grew from there (Becoming judges, making councils, etc...), but besides the what seems to be the famous example of Theodosius penancing after being pressured to do so by Ambrose, I haven't seen many direct confrontations between holy men and emperors where the holy man won out. I believe there may be a 2nd example although I would have to look into it more where an emperor (I vaguely remember it being emperor Leo?) was persuaded by the archbishop to not strengthen the Roman army but instead to strengthen their prayers to God to defeat the invading barbarians. But other than that, I'm out of ideas. And again, I'm looking for specifically books that talk about this topic.

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Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.