Escaping Justice?: The Politics of Liberation Miracles in Late Medieval Portugal

Iona McCleery

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The Politics of Liberation Miracles in Late Medieval Portugal

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Page Range:: 249–273

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468498_014

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This chapter is an exploration of the many non-healing miracles found in medieval shrine collections and canonization processes, with a particular focus on a set of liberation miracles recorded for late medieval Portugal. The first part defines what is meant by “non-healing” miracles and discusses some methodological difficulties; the second part considers non-healing miracles in the context of the Portuguese cult of the saints. The last part of the chapter provides a case study of protection miracles from the cult of Our Lady of Virtues, focusing on liberation from prison or escape from execution. The argument of the chapter is that non-healing miracles are highly political in nature, but rather than being signs of disorder, they reinforced existing standards and norms. Such miracles are guides to ideal behaviour and performances of power that shed considerable light on medieval Portuguese criminal justice.

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A Companion to Medieval Miracle Collections

丛编： Reading Medieval Sources, 卷： 5

ISBN:: 9789004468498

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 27 Aug 2021

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