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Signs, Wonders, Miracles
Representations of Divine Power in the Life of the Church
Edited by Kate Cooper
Edited by Jeremy Gregory


The signs, wonders, and miracles by which God was believed to communicate with his people on earth provide the focus for this wide-ranging volume. Beginning with a re-consideration of Constantine's vision in 312 and ending with a discussion of the place of miracles in the making of twentieth-century Spanish identity, these essays explore the manifestations of divine power in the conversion of the ancient world to Christianity, in medieval saints' lives and Byzantine hagiography, in the Crusades, and in the early modern and modern periods. A surprising feature of this collection is its demonstration that the miraculous continued in its importance to Christian communities from Reformation Europe forward into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taken together these essays eschew any simple secularisation thesis and highlight the persistence of the role of divine power in how men and women interpreted the world around them. Contributors include W. H. C. Frend, Bernard Hamilton, Michael Goodich, Brenda Bolton, Jaime Lara, Alexandra Walsham, Hartmut Lehmann, and Grant Wacker.

 

DETAILS

21 b/w illustrations
496 pages
Size: 21.6 x 13.8 cm
13 digit ISBN: 9780954680916
Binding: Hardback
First published: 11/Aug/2005
Price: 90.00 USD / 45.00 GBP
Imprint: Ecclesiastical History Society
Series: Studies in Church History
Subject: New Books

BIC class: HRAX

STATUS: Available
Details updated on 05/01/2009

Contents
1   In hoc signo vinces: the True Context of the Vision of Constantine
Richard M Price
2   The Place of Miracles in the Conversion of the Ancient World to Christianity
W H C Frend
3   Ventriloquism and the Miraculous: Conversion, Preaching, and the Martyr Exemplum in Late Antiquity
4   The Diabolical Power of Lettuce or, Garden Miracles in Gregory the Great's Dialogues
Barbara Mueller
5   Constat ergo inter nos verba signa esse: the Understanding of the Miraculous in Anglo-Saxon Society
Anna Maria Luiselli
6   Miracles, Missionaries and Manuscripts in Eighth-Century Southern Germany
Clare Pilsworth
7   Mapping Miracles in Byzantine Hagiography: the Development of the Legend of St Alexios
Barbara Crostini
8   God Wills It: Signs of Divine Approval in the Crusade Movement
Bernard F Hamilton
9   Stigmata on the First Crusade
10   Monastic Miracles in Southern Italy, c.1040-1140
Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
11   Miracles, Meaning and Narrative in the Latin East
Yvonne Friedman
12   Mirabilis Deus in sanctis suis: Social History and Medieval Miracles
Michael Goodich
13   Signs, Wonders, Miracles: Supporting the Faith in Medieval Rome
Brenda H Bolton
14   Modernizing St Cuthbert: Reginald of Durham's Miracle Collection
Sally Crumplin
15   Multos ex medicinae arte curaverat, multos verbo et oratione:Curing in Medieval Portuguese Saints' Lives
Iona McCleery
16   Miraculous Crucifixes in Late Medieval Italy
Katherine Jansen
17   Bloody Miracles of a Political Martyr: the Case of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster
Danna Piroyansky
18   Miracles and Visions in Devotio Moderna Biographies
Mathilde Van Dijk
20   A Vulcanological Joachim of Fiore and an Aerodynamic Francis of Assisi in Colonial Latin America
Jaime Lara
21   Miracles in Post-Reformation England
Alexandra M Walsham
22   Through a Venice Glass Darkly: John Foxe's Most Famous Miracle
Thomas S. Freeman
23   Miracles within Catastrophes: Some Examples from Early Modern Germany
Harmut Lehmann
24   Late Seventeenth-Century Quakerism and the Miraculous: a New Look at George Fox's 'Book of Miracles'
Rosemary Moore
25   Reclaiming Ghosts in 1690s England
Sasha Handley
26   Acts of God, Acts of Men: Providence in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England and France
Francoise Deconinck-Brossard
27   Seeing Salvation: the Place of Dreams and Visions in John Wesley's Arminian Magazine
R Webster
28   The Magic Methodists and their Influence on the Early Primitive Methodist Movement
John Tomlinson
29   Trying the Spirits: Irvingite Signs and the Test of Doctrine
Timothy C. F. Stunt
30   'Signs and Wonders that Lie': Unlikely Polemical Outbursts Against the Early Pentecostal Movement in Britain
T B Walsh
31   Living with Signs and Wonders: Parents and Children in Early Pentecostal Culture
Grant Wacker
32   Angels in the Trenches: British Soldiers and Miracles in the First World War
Katherine Finlay
33   Miracles, Messiahs and the Media: the Ministry of A. H. Dallimore in Auckland in the 1930s
Laurie Guy
34   Miracles in the Making of Twentieth-Century Spanishness: Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Buñuel's Viridiana and Isidro el Labrador
Anthony John Lappin

 

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