Wonderful to Relate : : Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England / / Rachel Koopmans.

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• VerfasserIn: Koopmans, Rachel,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 22 illus.

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 dee...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Narrating the Saint's Works: Conversations, Personal Stories, and the Making of Cults
• Chapter 2. To Experience What I Have Heard: Plotlines and Patterning of Oral Miracle Stories
• Chapter 3. A Drop from the Ocean's Waters: Lantfred of Fleury and the Cult of Swithun at Winchester
• Chapter 4. Fruitful in the House of the Lord: The Early Miracle Collections of Goscelin of St.-Bertin
• Chapter 5. They Ought to be Written: Osbern of Canterbury and the First English Miracle Collectors
• Chapter 6. Obvious Material for Writing: Eadmer of Canterbury and the Miracle-Collecting Boom
• Chapter 7. What the People Bring: Miracle Collecting in the Mid- to Late Twelfth Century
• Chapter 8. Most Blessed Martyr: Thomas Becket's Murder and the Christ Church Collections
• Chapter 9. I Take Up the Burden: Benedict of Peterborough's Examination of Becket's Miracles
• Chapter 10. Choose What You Will: William of Canterbury and the Heavenly Doctor
• Conclusion: The End of Miracle Collecting
• Appendix 1: Manuscripts of the Christ Church Miracle Collections for Thomas Becket
• Appendix 2: The Construction of Benedict of Peterborough's Miracula S. Thomae
• Appendix 3: The Construction of William of Canterbury's Miracula S. Thomae
• List of Abbreviations
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments