Miracle cures: saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief
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Berkeley
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University of California Press
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 207-225( and index
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Robert A. Scott
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Prologue -- Appealing to saints for miracles. Life in the Middle Ages -- Saints -- Apparitions -- Pilgrimage and shrines -- Saints and healing. Disease -- The role stress in illness -- Belief, hope, and healing -- Framing, confessing, and healing -- Coda -- Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines