Biographies of the Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Miracles, Wonders, and Human Existence Globally and in the Pre-Modern Age: Also an Introduction 1
4. (False) Miracles, Doctors and the potentia of Saints in the Gaul of Gregory of Tours 107
5. Apostle’s Miracles and Kings’ Authority in West Francia (ca. 850–ca. 1050) 127
6. Fecundity, Motherhood and Healing Karāmāt (Miracles): A Comparative Study of Sayyidah Nafīsah and Christian Women Saints 161
7. Intertextuality and the Transcendental Miracle of Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Risālat al-Ghufrān (The Epistle of Forgiveness) (1033 C.E.) 189
8. The Miracles of Solomon: A Comparative Study of Al-Thaʿlabī’s Qiṣaṣ Al-Anbiyāʾ and “The City of Brass,” a Tale in the Arabian Nights Collection 215
9. Miracle Accounts as Teaching Aids and Learning Tools: Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus Miraculorum as a Mirror of Everyday Life and the History of Mentality 241
10. The Ultimate Miracle: Revival of the Dead in Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria 275
11. Miracle of Miracles: Improbable Choices and Impossible Outcomes in Dante’s Paradiso 299
12. Miraculosa gratia: Discerning the Spirit, Discerning the Body in the Liber of Angela of Foligno and in the Vita of Clare of Montefalco 337
13. Miraculous Revelation in the Middle English Pearl 375
14. The Miracles of the Immaculate Conceptions in the St. Anne’s Legend and the Middle English Joseph of Aramathie 405
15. “Many ferlis han fallen in a fewe ȝeris”: Debt, Obligation, Godly Presence, and Grasping the Miraculous in Piers Plowman 427
16. Margery Kempe and Miracles: Guarding Understanding and Interpretation of Experience 459
17. Where Has God Gone in the Vernacular Renderings of Lanfranc’s Chirurgia magna? 477
18. Non vidit, sed firmiter credit – The Many Roles of Jews in Christian Miracle Narratives 505
19. “Never of Myselff”: Failure and Interiority in Malory’s “The Healing of Sir Urry” 555
20. Between Wonders and Miracles. The Use and Abuse of Natural Substances in the Healing Rituals of Late Medieval and Early Modern Popular Culture 581
21. Between Wonder and Science: Alchemy in Augurello’s Mini-Epic Chryrsopoeia (1515) 619
22. “Miraculous Light” – Natural Phenomena and Divine Salvation in the Medieval and Early Modern World 647
23. Biographies of the Contributors
24. Index