List #8: Miracles

                  

 

Primary Sources

 

[Athanasios I of Constantinople]  Faith Healing in Late Byzantium: The Posthumous Miracles of the Patriarch Athanasios I of Constantinople by Theoktistos the Stoudite, edited by Alice-Mary Talbot.  Brookline, MA:  Hellenic College Press, 1983.                  

 

[Byzantine miracles] Miracle Tales from Byzantium edited by Alice-MaryTalbot and Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, eds.  Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 12. Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 2012.

 

[Confessors in the Late Antique West] Gregory of Tours: Glory of the Confessors, translated by Raymond van Dam. Translated Texts for Historians Latin Series 4.  Liverpool:  Liverpool University Press, 1988. 

 

[Edmund] Miracles of St Edmund / Herman the Archdeacon and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, edited and translated by Tom Licence. Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

           

[Erkenwald]  The Saint of London:  The Life and Miracles of St. Erkenwald: Text and Translation, edited and translated by E. Gordon Whatley. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 58.  Binghamton, NY:  Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1989.

 

[Foy]  The Book of Sainte Foy, translated by Pamela Scheingorn.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

 

[Mary] The Middle English Miracles of the Virgin, translaetd byy Beverly Boyce.  San Marino CA:  The Huntington Library, 1964.

 

[Mary]  Gonzalo de Berceo: Miracles of Our Lady, translated by Richard Terry Mount and Annette Grant Cash.  Lexington KY:  University Press of Kentucky Press, 1997. 

 

[Mary]  One Hundred and Ten Miracles of Our Lady Mary Translated from Ethiopic Manuscripts for the Most Part in the British Museum, with Extracts from Some Ancient European Versions, and Illustrations from the Paintings in Manuscripts by Ethopian Artists, translated by Ernest A. Wallace Budge.  London:  Medici Society, 1923.

 

[Martyrs in the Late Antique West] Gregory of Tours: Glory of the Martyrs, translated by Raymond van Dam. Translated Texts for Historians Latin Series 3.  Liverpool:  Liverpool University Press, 1988.

 

 [Monks of sixth-century Italy] Gregory I: Dialogues.  translated by Odo John Zimmerman.  Fathers of the Church 31.  New York:  Fathers of the Church, 1959.

 

[Monks of early medieval Brittany] The Monks of Redon, edited and translated by Caroline Brett.  Woodbridge, UK:  Boydell, 1989.

 

[Photeine]  “The Posthumous Miracles of St. Photeine," translated by Alice Mary Talbot.  Analecta Bollandiana 112 (1994):  85-104.

 

 

Secondary Sources

 

Aigle, Denise. Miracle et karāma. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000.

 

Albert, J.-P.  Odeurs de sainteté.  La mythologie chrétienne des aromates.  Recherches d’histoire et de sciences sociales 42.  Paris:  École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1990.

 

Barone, Giulia. “Une hagiographie sans miracles: Observations en marges de quelques vies du Xe siècle.”  In Les fonctions des saints dans le monde occidental IIe-XIIIe siècle:  Actes du colloque organisé par l’École française de Rome avec le concours de l’Université de Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, 27-29 octobre 1988.  Rome:  ÉFR, 1991.  Pp. 435-46.

 

Bartlett, Robert. The Natural and Supernatural in the Middle Ages. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

                              

Boesch Gajano, Sofia, and Marilena Modica, eds.  Miracoli: Dai segni alla storia. Sacro/santo n.s. 1. Rome: Viella, 2000.

 

Bull, Marcus. “Views of Muslims and of Jerusalem in Miracle Stories, c. 1000 – c. 1200:  Reflections on the Study of First Crusaders’ Motivations.” In The Experience of Crusading: Vol. 1:  Western Approaches, edited by Bull and Norman Housley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 13-38.           

 

Caciola, Nancy. Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

 

Cavadini, John C. “A Note on Gregory’s Use of Miracles in The Life and Miracles of St. Benedict.” American Benedictine Review 19 (1998): 104-20.

 

Christian, William A.  Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1981.

 

Colgrave, Bertram.  “Bede’s Miracle Stories.”  In Bede:  His Life, Time, and Writings, edited by A. Hamilton Thompson.  New York:  Russell & Russell, 1966.  Pp. 201-29.

 

De Nie, Giselle. Poetics of Wonder: Testimonies of the New Christian Miracles in the Late Antique Latin World.  Studies in the Early Middle Ages 31.  Turnhout:  Brepols, 2012

 

Farmer, Sharon.  “Down and Out and Female in Thirteenth-Century Paris,” American Historical Review 103 (1998): 344-72.

 

Finucane, Ronald.  Miracles and Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England.  Totowa NJ:  Rowan and Littlefield, 1977.

 

Finucane, Ronald. The Rescue of the Innocents:  Endangered Children in Medieval Miracles.  New York:  St. Martin’s, 1997. 

 

Flory, David A. Marian Representations in the Miracle Tales of Thirteenth-Century Spain and France.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2000.  Includes “Defining the Marian Miracle Tale.”

 

Fremer,Torsten. "Wunder und Magie. Zur Funktion der Heiligen im frühmittelalterlichen christianisierungsprozeß." Hagiographica 3 (1996): 15-80.

 

de Gaiffier, Baudouin.  “Miracles bibliques et vies des saints.”  Nouvelle revue théologique 88 (1966):  376-85.  Rpt. in his Etudes critiques d’hagiographie et d’iconologie.  Subsidia Hagiographica 43.  Brussels:  Société des bollandistes, 1967.  Pp. 50-61.

 

Goodich, Michael. Miracles and Wonders: The Development of the Concept of Miracle, 1150-1350. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007.

 

Goodich, Michael.  Violence and Miracle in the Fourteenth Century:  Private Grief and Public Salvation. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1995.

 

Levack, Brian P. The Devil Within:  Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

 

 Koopmans, Rachel.  Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 

 

Jackson, Deirdre.  Marvellous to Behold:  Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts. London:  British Library, 2007.  [illustrations of miracles from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim sources]

 

“Miracles et typologie de la sainteté.”  Section III of Hagiographie, cultures, et sociétés, IVe-XIIe siècles: Actes du Colloque organisé à Nanterre et à Paris (2-5 mai 1979), edited by the Centre de recherches sur l’antiquité tardive et le haut moyen âge, Université de Paris X.  Paris:  Etudes augustiniennes, 1981.  Pp. 161-379.

 

Mirakel im Mittelalter: Konzeptionen, Erscheinungsformen, Deutungen, edited by Martin Heinzelmann, Klaus Herbers, and Dieter R. Bauer. Beiträge zur Hagiographie 3.  Stuttgart:  Franz Steiner, 2002.

 

Histoire des miracles. Actes de la Sixième Rencontre d’Histoire Religieuse tenue à Fontevraud les 8 et 9 octobre 1982, organisée par le Centre de Recherches d’Histoire Religieuse et d’Histoire des Idées (Université d’Angers) et par le Centre Culturel de l’Ouest (Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud).  Angers:  Presses de l’Université, 1983.

 

McCready, William D.  Signs of Sanctity: Miracles in the Thought of Gregory the Great. Studies and Texts 91. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1989.

 

“Miracle Collections:  Approaches to Structure and Functions.”  A three-article special section in Hagiographica 3 (1996): 265-322.

 

Newman, Barbara.  “Possessed by the Spirit:  Devout Women, Demoniacs, and the Apostolic Life in the Thirteenth Century.” Speculum 73 (1998): 733-70.

 

Röckelin, Hedwig.  “Miracles and Horizontal Mobility in the Early Middle Ages:  Some Methodological Reflections.”  In The Community, the Family, and the Saint: Patterns of Power in Early Medieval Europe:  Selected Proceedings of the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 4-7 July 1994, 10-13 July 1995, edited by Joyce Hill and Mary Swan.  International Medieval Research. Turnhout: Brepols, 1998. Pp. 181-97.

 

Sigal, Pierre-André.  “Comment on concevait et on traitait la paralysie en Occident dans le haut moyen âge (Ve-XIIIe s.).”  Revue d’histoire des sciences 197 (1971): 153-211.

 

Sigal, Pierre-André.  L’Homme et le miracle dans la France médiévale (XIe-XIe siècle).  Paris: Cerf, 1985.

 

Sigal, Pierre-André. “Reliques, pèlerinages et miracles dans l’Église médiévale (XIe-XIIIe siècles).” Revue d’histoire de l’Église de France 76 (1990): 193-211.

 

Stancliffe, Clare. “The Miracle Stories in Seventh-Century Irish Saints’ Lives.” In The Seventh Century: Change and Continuity, edited by Jacques Fontaine and J. N. Hillgarth.  London: University of London Warburg Institute, 1992.  Pp. 87-111.

 

Van Dam, Raymond.  Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

 

Van Uytfanghe, Marc.  “La controverse biblique et patristique autour du miracle, et ses répercussions sur l’hagiographie dans l’Antiquité tardive et le haut moyen âge latin.”  In Hagiographie, cultures, et sociétés, IVe-XIIe siècles: Actes du Colloque organisé à Nanterre et à Paris (2-5 mai 1979), edited by the Centre de recherches sur l’antiquité tardive et le haut moyen âge, Université de Paris X.  Paris:  Etudes augustiniennes, 1981. Pp. 205-33.

 

Vauchez, André. Saints, prophètes et visionnaires: Le pouvoir surnaturel au Moyen Age. Paris: Albin Michel, 1999.

 

Ward, Benedicta.  Miracles and the Medieval Mind:  Theory, Record, and Event, 1000-1215.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.  Revised edition 1987.

 

Wenz-Haubfleisch, A.  Miracula Post Mortem: Studien zum Quellenwert hochmittelalterlicher Mirakelsammlungen, vornehmlich des ostfränkisch-deutschen Reiches (dissertation). Siegburger Studien 26.  Siegburg: Respublica 1998.