Miracles in Medieval Canonization Processes: Structures, Functions, and Methodologies

Abbreviations vii
Preface ix
Approaching Twelfth- to Fifteenth-Century Miracles: Miracle Registers, Collections, and Canonization Processes as Source Material / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Christian Krötzl 1
Part I. Inquiring Evidence and Selecting Miracles
The Inquisition of Miracles in Medieval Canonization Processes / Gábor Klaniczay 43
Choosing Miracles for Vincent Ferrer / Laura Ackerman Smoller 75
Testifying to Miracles: A Report on the Canonization Process of Bernardin of Siena / Letizia Pellegrini 105
Part II. Methods of Recording: Proof, Doubt, and Societal Processes
Telling the Miracle: The Meeting between Pilgrim and Scribe as Reflected in Swedish Miracle Collections / Anders Fröjmark 131
'Miracula post mortem': On Function, Content, and Typological Changes / Christian Krötzl 157
Des miracles incroyables: Doutes ou intérêt social et politique dans les procès de canonisation des xiiie–xive siècles / Didier Lett 177
Part III. Depositions and Convincing Rhetoric
Proving Misfortune, Proving Sainthood: Reconstructing Physical Impairment in Fourteenth-Century Miracle Testimonies / Jenni Kuuliala 197
Narrative Strategies in the Depositions: Gender, Family, and Devotion / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa 227
The Prosaic Supernatural: Representation and Function of Lay Visionary Experience in Miracle Collections from the Low Countries / Jonas Van Mulder 257
Index of Places and Persons 285