In Miracles and Pilgrims, Ronald C. Finucane analyzes more than 3,000 posthumous accounts of miracles. He pieces together the world of pilgrims, miracles and faith-healing, and demonstrates its hold over the medieval imagination.
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"...the fullest, most thorough and intelligent study of medieval miracle stories to have appeared in any language." --Times Literary Supplement
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In this erudite study of the pilgrims who visited a select group of saintly shrines in England and France, R. Finucane has put numbers and statistics to the phenomenon of miracles and wonders in the central middle ages. Ranging from such canonized luminaries as Thomas Becket to obscure unknowns such as a boy named William who was killed in the woods, Finucane painstakingly reviewed the documents and quantifies them in terms of social class, gender, and type of miracle. What results is a picture of the people, more than half of whom were lower class, who resorted to seeking the aide of a revered saint when finding themselves in trouble. Not just illness, but shipwrecks, jousting wounds, blindness - a whole panoply of medieval evils is reported. The phenomenon of the spread of a saint's cult is also nicely interpreted. While it doen not read like a novel, the narrative is interesting in spite of its factual emphasis on research and stats. A welcome addition to the literature on religious pilgrimage in England.
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Christianity was born into a world already familiar with wandering healers and soothsayers; it developed in an atmosphere heavy with magic and miracle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
curative shrines, cured pilgrims, recorded pilgrims, papal commissioners, miracle collections, holy bones, pilgrim crowds, posthumous miracles, medieval faith, dead bishop, upper clergy, curative water, medieval pilgrims, wax images, medieval folk Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thomas Cantilupe, William of Norwich, Simon de Montfort, Edmund Rich, King Henry, Thomas of Monmouth, Bishop of Hereford, King Edward, Louis of Toulouse, Godric of Finchale, Hugh of Lincoln, Holy Rood, Thomas Becket, Virgin Mary, Bishop of Lincoln, Blessed Virgin, Gilbert of Sempringham, John of Salisbury, Pope Innocent, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Pecham, Augustine of Hippo, Bishop of Exeter, Bishop of Worcester, Black Death New!
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Christianity was born into a world already familiar with wandering healers and soothsayers; it developed in an atmosphere heavy with magic and miracle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
curative shrines, cured pilgrims, recorded pilgrims, papal commissioners, miracle collections, holy bones, pilgrim crowds, posthumous miracles, medieval faith, dead bishop, upper clergy, curative water, medieval pilgrims, wax images, medieval folk Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thomas Cantilupe, William of Norwich, Simon de Montfort, Edmund Rich, King Henry, Thomas of Monmouth, Bishop of Hereford, King Edward, Louis of Toulouse, Godric of Finchale, Hugh of Lincoln, Holy Rood, Thomas Becket, Virgin Mary, Bishop of Lincoln, Blessed Virgin, Gilbert of Sempringham, John of Salisbury, Pope Innocent, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Pecham, Augustine of Hippo, Bishop of Exeter, Bishop of Worcester, Black Death New!
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