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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1. Narrating the Saint’s Works: Conversations, Personal Stories, and the Making of Cults

2. To Experience What I Have Heard: Plotlines and Patterning of Oral Miracle Stories

3. A Drop from the Ocean’s Waters: Lantfred of Fleury and the Cult of Swithun at Winchester

4. Fruitful in the House of the Lord: The Early Miracle Collections of Goscelin of St.-Bertin

5. They Ought to be Written: Osbern of Canterbury and the First English Miracle Collectors

6. Obvious Material for Writing: Eadmer of Canterbury and the Miracle-Collecting Boom

7. What the People Bring: Miracle Collecting in the Mid- to Late Twelfth Century

8. Most Blessed Martyr: Thomas Becket’s Murder and the Christ Church Collections

9. I Take Up the Burden: Benedict of Peterborough’s Examination of Becket’s Miracles

10. Choose What You Will: William of Canterbury and the Heavenly Doctor

Conclusion: The End of Miracle Collecting

Appendix 1: Manuscripts of the Christ Church Miracle Collections for Thomas Becket

Appendix 2: The Construction of Benedict of Peterborough’s Miracula S. Thomae

Appendix 3: The Construction of William of Canterbury’s Miracula S. Thomae

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments