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Violence and miracle in the fourteenth century : private grief and public salvation / Michael E. Goodich.
Author
Goodich, Michael, 1944-2006
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Description
xi, 220 p. ; 22 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BX4662 .G65 1995
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Subject(s)
Christian saints
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Europe
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Legends
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Popular culture
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Religious aspects
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Christianity
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History
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Miracles
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History of doctrines
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Middle Ages, 600-1500
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Christian hagiography
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History
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To 1500
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Social history
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Medieval, 500-1500
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Violence in literature
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Legends
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legends (literary genre)
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Summary note
As war, pestilence, and famine spread through Europe in the Middle Ages, so did reports of miracles, of hopeless victims wondrously saved from disaster. These "rescue miracles," recorded by over one hundred fourteenth-century cults, are the basis of Michael Goodich’s account of the miraculous in everyday medieval life. Rescue miracles offer a wide range of voices rarely heard in medieval history, from women and children to peasants and urban artisans. They tell of salvation not just from the ravages of nature and war, but from the vagaries of a violent society—crime, unfair judicial practices, domestic squabbles, and communal or factional conflict. The stories speak to a collapse of confidence in decaying institutions, from the law to the market to feudal authority. Particularly, the miraculous escapes documented during the Hundred Years’ War, the Italian communal wars, and other conflicts are vivid testimony to the end of aristocratic warfare and the growing victimization of noncombatants. Miracles, Goodich finds, represent the transcendent and unifying force of faith in a time of widespread distress and the hopeless conditions endured by the common people of the Middle Ages. Just as the lives of the saints, once dismissed as church propaganda, have become valuable to historians, so have rescue miracles, as evidence of an underlying medieval mentalite. This work expands our knowledge of that state of mind and the grim conditions that colored and shaped it. -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-203) and index.
Contents
Preface
Cult and miracle in the fourteenth century
The church as mediator and victim
Crime and punishment
The vagaries of family life
Children as victims
The violence of nature
The ravages of war
Conclusion.
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ISBN
0226302946 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780226302942 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0226302954 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780226302959 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
94039199
OCLC
31436281
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