Gender, Miracles, and Daily Life

Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari

doi:10.1484/m.hdl-eb.5.106070

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“…Additionally, the women who gave their testimonies were only ever asked about the miracles they knew about or were involved in, and no women were asked about Thomas's life and merits. 92 The cult appears to be male dominated simply because of the inherent biases of the time.…”

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Bishop Cantilupe is Dead! Long Live St Thomas of Hereford! The Effects of St Thomas of Hereford's Miraculous Cult

Bass

2020

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This article marks the 700th anniversary of the canonisation of St Thomas de Cantilupe, bishop of Hereford (1275‐82, canonised 1320), by providing a comprehensive overview of the extant fourteenth‐century miracle collection, Oxford, Exeter College, MS 158, with reference to a contemporary copy in Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Cod. Lat. 4015. Taken together these two manuscripts represent the second largest collection of miracles – just over 460 – to survive for any medieval English saint, and they contain a wealth of information about life and death in late thirteenth‐ to early fourteenth‐century England, Wales and Ireland. After a short precis of Thomas's life and death, the article analyses the contents of the miracle collection. It shows the number of miracles reported annually for the life cycle of the cult, the ratio of male to female pilgrims, and the types of cures that were sought at Thomas's shrine in Hereford cathedral. In doing this, light will be shed on the miraculous cult of England's ‘second St Thomas’, placing him firmly within the pantheon of medieval English saints being celebrated in 2020.

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Bishop Cantilupe is Dead! Long Live St Thomas of Hereford! The Effects of St Thomas of Hereford's Miraculous Cult

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2020

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“…At the hearing, the commissioners' questioning formula shaped and unified the final written version. 21 This way certain aspects became essential elements of miracle depositions.…”

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Communal Acts in the Process of Death: A Comparison Between Nordic and South European 15th-century Hagiographic Material

Nissi

2020

Scandinavian Journal of History

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This paper analyses communal elements which were essential for a resurrection miracle narrative. The analysis focuses on the comparison between Nordic and South European hagiographic material. In resurrection miracle depositions, five particular acts of death were frequently recorded in order to show that people were sure about the arrival of death and that a person was believed to be cured through a proper miracle. The material suggests that the acts around a dying person were perceived similarly in Scandinavian and South European miracle testimonies. Thus, Scandinavia's remote geographical location, far from the heart of Christianity, had almost no impact on the ways a resurrection miracle narrative was formulated in the late Middle Ages. Even though these acts seem to be hagiographical topoi, both the witnesses and the commissioners of canonization processes considered these acts such as fit their perception of a death moment and a miraculous recovery.

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