Miracle cures
Subtitle: saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief
By: Robert A. Scott
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780520262751
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Appealing to saints for miracles. Life in the Middle Ages; title: Saints; title: Apparitions; title: Pilgrimage and shrines; title: Saints and healing. Disease; title: The role stress in illness; title: Belief, hope, and healing; title: Framing, confessing, and healing; title: Coda; title: Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines.