Women and miracle stories : a multidisciplinary exploration /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Series: | Studies in the history of religions ;
88. |
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Table of Contents:
- Women and miracle stories: introduction / Anne-Marie Korte
- Magic, miracle and miracle workers in the Acts of Thecla / Magda Misset-van de Weg
- Fatherly and motherly curing in sixth-century Gaul: Saint Radegund's Mysterium / Giselle de Nie
- Women in Columba's life, as seen through the eyes of his biographer Adomnán / Jacqueline Borsje
- Fresh water for a tired soul: pregnancy and messianic desire in a mediaeval Jewish document from Sicily / Marcel Poorthuis & Chana Safrai
- The life of Christina Mirabilis: miracles and the construction of marginality / Anke E. Passenier
- In pain you shall bear children (Gen 3:16): medieval prayers for a safe delivery / Marianne Elsakkers
- A woman alone: the beatification of Friederike Hauffe née Wanner (1801-1829) / Wouter J. Hanegraaff
- Māriyamman̲'s Śakti: the miraculous power of a smallpox goddess / Anne van Voorthuizen
- Women and miracles in the stories of Ingeborg Bachmann / Ilse N. Bulhof
- Miracles of desire: transfigurations in Rhoda Lerman's The book of the night / Inez van der Spek
- A different grace: epilogue / Anne-Marie Korte.