Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England

by Rachel Koopmans

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812242793

ISBN13:9780812242799

Release Date:December 2010

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"

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