A Companion To Medieval Miracle Collections

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004468498
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Medieval Miracle Collections written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume for the usage of medieval miracle collections as a source, offering versatile approaches to the origins, methods, and techniques of various types of miracle narratives, as well as fascinating case studies from across Europe.

Author : Rachel Koopmans
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206991
Total Pages : 349 pages
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Download or read book Wonderful to Relate written by Rachel Koopmans and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the late Anglo-Saxons rarely recorded saints' posthumous miracles, a shift occurred as monastic writers of the late eleventh and twelfth centuries started to preserve hundreds of the stories they had heard of healings, acts of vengeance, resurrections, recoveries, and other miraculous deeds effected by their local saints. Indeed, Rachel Koopmans contends, the miracle collection quickly became a defining genre of high medieval English monastic culture. Koopmans surveys more than seventy-five collections and offers a new model for understanding how miracle stories were generated, circulated, and replicated. She argues that orally exchanged narratives carried far more propagandistic power than those preserved in manuscripts; stresses the literary and memorial roles of miracle collecting; and traces changes in form and content as the focus of the collectors shifted from the stories told by religious colleagues to those told by lay visitors to their churches. Wonderful to Relate highlights the importance of the two massive collections written by Benedict of Peterborough and William of Canterbury in the wake of the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170. Koopmans provides the first in-depth examination of the creation and influence of the Becket compilations, often deemed the greatest of all medieval miracle collections. In a final section, she ponders the decline of miracle collecting in the thirteenth century, which occurred with the advent of formalized canonization procedures and theological means of engaging with the miraculous.

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674059034
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miracle Tales from Byzantium written by and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English. They deepen our understanding of attitudes toward miracles and display the remarkable range of registers in which Greek could be written during the Byzantine period.

Author : Richard Beadle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827928
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre written by Richard Beadle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.

Author : Graham H. Twelftree
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521899869
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Miracles written by Graham H. Twelftree and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benedicta Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miracles and the Medieval Mind written by Benedicta Ward and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oliver J. Thatcher
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Source Book for Mediæval History written by Oliver J. Thatcher and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.

Author : Matthew M. Mesley
Publisher : Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
ISBN 13 : 0907570321
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contextualizing Miracles in the Christian West, 1100-1500 written by Matthew M. Mesley and published by Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together innovative research on miracles in the Christian West 1100-1500, and includes chapters on Anglo-Norman saints’ cults, late medieval Portugal and the legacy of medieval hagiography in the immediate Post-Reformation period. Contributors investigate miracle narratives in conjunction with broader socio-cultural ideals, practices and developments in medieval society. They also reassess the legacy of Peter Brown, challenge established dichotomies such as ‘medicine and religion’, and examine relics, lay beliefs and the liturgical evidence of a saint’s cult, moving beyond the traditional focus on canonization. Medical history features prominently alongside other approaches; these clarify the contexts of our sources, and demonstrate the methodological vibrancy in this field.

Author : Christian Krötzl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503573144
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miracles in Medieval Canonization Processes written by Christian Krötzl and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Virgil S. Crisafulli
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004105744
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miracles of St. Artemios written by Virgil S. Crisafulli and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of and philological-historical commentary on an anonymous hagiographical text, which provides insights into faith healing and the treatment of hernias in 7th-century Constantinople.