 | Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England Subjects: English literature -- Middle English 1100–1500 -- History and criticism; Literary form -- History -- To 1500; Monastic and religious life -- England -- History Middle Ages 600–1500; Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500; Christian sain; Drawing on fresh work in the social sciences, Rachel Koopmans offers a new model for understanding how medieval miracle stories were generated, circulated, and replicated within an oral environment. She argues that the miracle collection became a defining genre of the high medieval period. Rachel Koopmans teaches history at York University, Toronto. |
