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Saints and their Communities - Miracle Stories in Twelfth-Century England (Hardcover, New)
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Saints and their Communities - Miracle Stories in Twelfth-Century England (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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Saints and their Communities offers a new approach to the study of
lay religion as evidenced in collections of miracle narratives in
twelfth-century England. There are a number of problems associated
with the interpretation of this hagiographical genre and an
extended introduction discusses these. The first issue is the
tendency to read these narratives as transparent accounts of lay
religion as if it were something susceptible to static,
'ethnographic' treatment in isolation from wider social and
political activities. The second issue is the challenge of
explaining the miraculous as a credible part of cultural
experience, without appealing to reductionist notions of a
'medieval mindset'. The third issue is the problem of how to take
full account of the fact that these sources are representations of
lay experience by monastic authors. The author argues that miracle
narratives were the product of and helped to foster lay notions of
Christian practice and identity centred on the spiritual patronage
of certain enshrined saints.
The six main chapters provide fully contextualized studies of
selected miracle collections. Yarrow looks at when these
collections were made, who wrote them, the kinds of audiences they
are likely to have reached, and the messages they were intended to
convey. He shows how these texts served to represent specific cults
in terms that articulated the values and interests of the
institutions acting as custodians of the relics; and how alongside
other programmes of textual production, these collections of
stories can be linked to occasions of uncertainty or need in the
life of these institutions. A concluding chapter argues the case
for miracle collections asevidence of the attempt by traditional
monasteries to reach out to the relatively affluent peasantry, and
to urban communities in society, and their rural hinterlands with
offers of protection and opportunities for them to express their
social status with reference to tomb-centred sanctity.
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