Author : William (of Malmesbury)
Release : 2015
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 160/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary by : William (of Malmesbury)
Download or read book Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary written by William (of Malmesbury). This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Miracles of the Virgin Mary', written c. 1135 by the Benedictine monk and historian William of Malmesbury (d. 1143), is important on several counts. It belongs to the first wave of collected miracles of the Virgin, produced by English Benedictine monks in the 1120s and '30s. These collections were to be influential across Europe because the stories in them were not connected with a particular shrine, but international. Although only two copies of William's collection survive in anything like its complete and original plan, in a dismembered form it too was influential across Europe and through the rest of the medieval period.
