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Miracle cures : saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief / Robert A. Scott.

By: Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.Description: xxix, 235 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0520262751 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520262751 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT732.5 .S34 2010
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 -- Coda -- Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks BT732.5 .S34 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001146306

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-235) and index.

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 -- Coda -- Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines.

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