Violence and Miracle in the Fourteenth Century

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As war and pestilence and famine spread through Europe in the Middle Ages, so did reports of miracles, of hopeless victims wondrously saved from disaster. These 'rescue miracles, ' as recorded by over one hundred fourteenth-century cults, are the basis of Michael Goodich's study, which shows how much about everyday medieval life the miraculous can reveal.