Korte, Anne-Marie ; editor : - Women and Miracle Stories : A Multidisciplinary Exploration

Leiden, Brill, 2001. orig. cloth, dustwrapper. 24x16cm, xi,350 pages. Series: Studies in the History of Religions, 88.. ISBN: 9004116818. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Contents : 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 Adomnan / Jacqueline Borsje -- Fresh water for a tired soul: pregnancy and Messianic desire in a medieval Jesish 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 beatificaion of Friederike Hauffe nee Wanner (1801-1829) / Wouter J. Hanegraaf -- Mariyamman's sakti: the miraculous power of a smallpox goddess / Anne van Voorthusizen -- 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.

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