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Women and miracle stories : a multidisciplinary exploration / edited by Anne-Marie Korte.

Contributor(s): Korte, Anne-Marie, 1957-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the history of religions: 88.Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2001Description: xi, 350 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004116818 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Miracles | Women -- Religious lifeDDC classification: 291.2/117 LOC classification: BL487 | .W65 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Women and miracle stories: introduction / Anne-Marie Korte -- Magic, miracle and miracle workers in the Acts of Thelca / 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 Adomnán / Jacqueline Borsje -- Fresh water for a tired soul: pregnancy and Messianic desire in a medieval Jewish 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 beautification of Friederike Hauffe neé Wanner (1801-1829) / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- Māriyamman̲'s Śakti: the miraculous power of a smallpox goddess / Anne Van Voorthuzien -- Women and miracles in the stories of Ingeborg de Bachmann / Ilse N. Bulhof -- Miracles of desire: transfigurations in Rhoda Lerman's The book of night / Inez Van Der Spek -- A different grace: epilogue / Anne-Marie Korte.

Women and miracle stories: introduction / Anne-Marie Korte -- Magic, miracle and miracle workers in the Acts of Thelca / 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 Adomnán / Jacqueline Borsje -- Fresh water for a tired soul: pregnancy and Messianic desire in a medieval Jewish 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 beautification of Friederike Hauffe neé Wanner (1801-1829) / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- Māriyamman̲'s Śakti: the miraculous power of a smallpox goddess / Anne Van Voorthuzien -- Women and miracles in the stories of Ingeborg de Bachmann / Ilse N. Bulhof -- Miracles of desire: transfigurations in Rhoda Lerman's The book of night / Inez Van Der Spek -- A different grace: epilogue / Anne-Marie Korte.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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