Contextualizing miracles in the Christian West, 1100-1500 : new historical approaches / edited by Matthew M. Mesley and Louise E. Wilson.

Date:
2014
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Oxford : The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 2014.

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231 pages ; 24 cm.

Notes

Date of publication given on title page as MMXIV.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Peter Brown and Victor Turner revisited : anthropological approaches to Latin miracle narratives in the medieval West / Anne E. Bailey -- Miracles, belief and Christian materiality : relic'ing in twelfth-century miracle narratives / Simon Yarrow -- Marian miracles and Marian liturgies in the Benedictine traition of post-Conquest England / Kati Ihnat -- Conceptions of the miraculous : natural philosophy and medical knowledge in the thirteenth-century Miracula of St Edmund of Abingdon / Louise Elizabeth Wilson -- "Christ more powerful than Galen"? : the relationship between medicine and miracles / Iona McCleery -- Indiscriminate healing miracles in decline : how social realities affect religious perception / Irina Metzler -- St Edmund of East Anglia : "martir, mayde and kynge", and midwife? / Rebeccas Pinner -- John Foxe's golden saints? : ways of reading Foxe's female martyrs in light of Voragine's Golden legend.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9780907570240
  • 0907570240
  • 9780907570325
  • 0907570321