
Signs and Wonders: Saints, Miracles and Prayer from the 4th Century to the 14th
by Ward,Benedicta-
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Summary
Table of Contents
Foreword | |
Hagiography and history: an introduction | |
Apophthegmata Matrum | |
Signs and wonders: miracles in the Desert tradition | |
The desert of the heart: importance of the Desert Fathers today | |
The image of the prostitute, from the 4th to the 12th centuries | |
Traditions of spiritual guidance: spiritual direction in the Desert Fathers | |
Discernment: a rare bird | |
A Tractarian inheritance: the religious life in a Patristic perspective | |
The miracles of St Benedict | |
Miracles and history: a reconsideration of the miracle stories used by Bede | |
The spirituality of St Cuthbert | |
Theodore of Tarsus: a Greek archbishop of Canterbury | |
Bede and the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons | |
A converting ordinance: Bede and the hymns of Charles Wesley | |
Translator's charity | |
Anselm of Canterbury: a monastic scholar | |
The place of Anselm in the development of Christian prayer | |
"Inward feeling and deep thinking": the prayers and meditations of St Anselm revisited | |
The Desert myth: reflections on the Desert ideal in early Cistercian monasticism | |
St Bernard and the Anglican Divines | |
The relationship between hermits and communities in the 12th century | |
The wounds of Christ: a medieval devotion and the Methodist revival | |
Laudabiliter vixit: the death of the Saints in some 12th-century sources | |
Saints and Sibyls: from Hildegard of Bingen to Teresa of Avila | |
"Faith seeking understanding": Anselm of Canterbury and Julian of Norwich | |
Julian the Solitary | |
Index | |
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