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by Ronald C. Finucane (Author) "Christianity was born into a world already familiar with wandering healers and soothsayers; it developed in an atmosphere heavy with magic and miracle..." (more)
Key Phrases: curative shrines, cured pilgrims, recorded pilgrims, Thomas Cantilupe, William of Norwich, Simon de Montfort (more...)

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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 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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Paperback: 252 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (April 15, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312125283
ISBN-13: 978-0312125288
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,166,356 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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

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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

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Magical Medicine: A Nigerian Case-Study (Pelican) by Una MacLean on 4 pages
The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Thomas Becket by William Urry in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
English Saints by William Holden Hutton in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)

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The Death of Kings: Royal Deaths in Medieval England by Michael Evans in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral by Robert A. Scott in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Church and Society in England, 1000-1500 (Social History in Perspective) by Andrew Brown in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor by Sharon Farmer in Front Matter, page 51, and Back Matter
Miracles at the Jesus Oak: Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe by Craig Harline in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)

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4.0 out of 5 stars It's a miracle!, January 3, 2006

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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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