Description: Traces the journey from ill health to miraculous cure through the lens of hagiographical texts from twelfth-century England.
Brief description: RUTH J. SALTER is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Reading.
Review Quotes: [Accessible] and appealing to informed non-specialists and subject experts, as well as to students of this period [...]. Through this extraordinary lens of the miraculous, we catch a glimpse of mundane.--SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE