Miracle cures : saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief /
Robert A. Scott.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
- xxix, 235 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-235) and index.
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.