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Violence and miracle in the fourteenth century : private grief and public salvation / Michael E. Goodich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodich, Michael, 1944-2006.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saints--Europe--Legends.
- Saints.
- Popular culture--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- History.
- Europe.
- Hagiography.
- Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Social history.
- Social history--Medieval.
- Popular culture--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
- Popular culture.
- Violence in literature.
- Genre:
- Legends.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 220 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- As war and pestilence and famine spread through Europe in the Middle Ages, so did reports of miracles, of hopeless victims wondrously saved from disaster. These 'rescue miracles, ' as recorded by over one hundred fourteenth-century cults, are the basis of Michael Goodich's study, which shows how much about everyday medieval life the miraculous can reveal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226302946
- 0226302954
- OCLC:
- 31436281
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