Miracle cures saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief

Prologue -- Appealing to saints for miracles. Life in the Middle Ages -- Saints -- Apparitions -- Pilgrimage and shrines -- Saints and healing. Disease -- The role stress in illness -- Belief, hope, and healing -- Framing, confessing, and healing -- Coda -- Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at mediev...

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1. Verfasser: Scott, Robert A. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, Calif. u.a. University of California Press c2010
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Zusammenfassung:Prologue -- Appealing to saints for miracles. Life in the Middle Ages -- Saints -- Apparitions -- Pilgrimage and shrines -- Saints and healing. Disease -- The role stress in illness -- Belief, hope, and healing -- Framing, confessing, and healing -- Coda -- Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines.
Prologue -- Saints, pilgrimage, and miracles -- Life in the Middle Ages -- Saints -- Apparitions -- Pilgrimage and shrines -- Saints, pilgrimage, and healing -- Disease -- The role stress in illness -- Belief, hope, and healing -- Framing, confessing, and healing -- Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines -- Appendix B: Other placebo studies
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 207 - 235) and index
Beschreibung:XXIX, 235 S.
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24 cm
ISBN:0520262751
0-520-26275-1
9780520262751
978-0-520-26275-1