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Miracle cures : saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief
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Miracle cures : saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief / Robert A. Scott.
ISBN
9780520262751 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520262751 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2010.
Physical Description
xxix, 235 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 03, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue
Appealing to saints for miracles
Life in the Middle Ages
Saints
Apparitions
Pilgrimage and shrines
Saints and healing
Disease
The role stress in illness
Belief, hope, and healing
Framing, confessing, and healing
Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines.
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