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Topographies of Gender in Middle High German Arthurian Romance (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand

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Wonderful to Relate

Rachel Koopmans

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Wonderful to Relate



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 culture. Koopmans surveys more than seventy-five collections and offers a new model for understanding how miracle stories were generated, circulated, and replicated. She argues that orally exchanged narratives carried far more propagandistic power than those preserved in manuscripts; stresses the literary and memorial roles of miracle collecting; and traces changes in form and content as the focus of the collectors shifted from the stories told by religious colleagues to those told by lay visitors to their churches. Wonderful to Relate highlights the importance of the two massive collections written by Benedict of Peterborough ...

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Medieval German Literature

Marion Gibbs
Sidney M. Johnson

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#8

Fashioning Change

Andrea Denny-Brown

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#7

The Passions of Christ in High-Medieval Thought

Kevin Madigan

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#6

Medieval Literacy and Textuality in Middle High German

Annette Volfing

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Jesus as Mother

Caroline Walker Bynum

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Glamorous Sorcery

David Rollo

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#3

Heather Blurton

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#2

Food and the Body

Philip Lyndon Reynolds

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Justice and the Social Context of Early Middle High German Literature (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)

This book argues that far from preaching traditional, otherworldly ideals, the authors or these religious works were deeply engaged in the social, political, and spiritual issues that characterized the Holy Roman Empire at a time of radical transformation.

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Justice and the Social Context of Early Middle High German Literature (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)

Robert G. Sullivan

High Medieval
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Thinking about Physical Impairment in the High Middle Ages, c.1100-c.1400 (Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture)

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