Wonderful to relate: miracle stories and miracle collecting in high medieval england
Auteur :
Koopmans, Rachel
Éditeur :
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN :
9780812242799
Date de publication :
7 déc. 2010
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Drawing on fresh work in the social sciences, Rachel Koopmans offers a new model for understanding how medieval miracle stories were generated, circulated, and replicated within an oral environment. She argues that the miracle collection became a defining genre of the high medieval period.