Signs, wonders, miracles : representations of divine power in the life of the church : papers read at the 2003 Summer Meeting and the 2004 Winter Meeting of the Ecvclesiastical History Society / edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory.

Includes bibliographical references.

In hoc signo vinces : the original context of the vision of Constantine / Richard Price -- The place of miracles in the conversion of the Ancient world to Christianity / W.H.C. Frend -- Ventriloquism and the miraculous : conversion, preaching, and the martyr exemplum in late antiquity / Kate Cooper -- The diabolical power of lettuce, or garden miracles in Gregory the Great's Dialogues / Barbara Müller -- Constat ergo inter nos verba signa esse : the understanding of the miraculous in Anglo-Saxon society / Anna Maria Luiselli Fadda -- Miracles, missionaries and manuscripts in eighth-century southern Germany / Clare Pilsworth -- Mapping miracles in Byzantine hagiography : the development of the legend of St. Alexios / Barbara Crostini -- 'God wills it' : signs of divine approval in the Crusade movement / Bernard Hamilton -- Stigmata on the first Crusade / William J. Purkis -- Monastic miracles in Southern Italy, c.1040-1140 / G.A. Loud -- Miracles, meaning and narrative in the Latin East / Yvonne Friedman -- Mirabilis Deus in sanctis suis : social history and Medieval miracles / Michael Goodich --

Signs, wonders, miracles : supporting the faith in Medieval Rome (presidential address) / Brenda Bolton -- Modernizing St. Cuthbert : Reginald of Durham's miracle collection / Sally Crumplin -- Multos ex medicinae arte curaverat, multos verbo et oratione : curing in Medieval Portugues saints' lives / Iona McCleery -- Miraculous crucifixes in late Medieval Italy / Katherine L. Jansen -- Bloody miracles of a political martyr : the case of Thomas Earl of Lancaster / Danna Piroyansky -- Miracles and visions in Devotio Moderna biographies / Mathilde Van Dijk -- A vulcanologiest Joachim of Fiore and an aerodynamic Francis of Assisi in colonial Latin America / Jaime Lara -- Miracles in post-Reformation England / Alexandra Walsham -- Through a Venice glass darkly : John Foxe's most famous miracle / Thomas S. Freeman -- Miracles within catastrophes : some examples from early Modern Germany / Hartmut Lehmann -- Late Seventeenth-century Quakerism and the miraculous : a new look at George Fox's 'Book of Miracles' / Rosemary Moore --

Reclaiming ghosts in 1690s England / Sasha Handley -- Acts of God, acts of men : providence in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- century England and France / Françoise Deconinck-Brossard -- Seeing salvation : the place of dreams and visions in John Wesley's Arminian Magazine / Robert Webster -- The magic Methodists and their influence on the Early Primitive Methodist movement / John W.B. Tomlinson -- Trying the spirits : Irvingite signs and the test of doctrine / Timothy C.F. Stunt -- 'Signs and wonders that lie' : unlikely polemical outbursts against the early Pentecostal movement in Britain / Tim Walsh -- Living with signs and wonders : parents and children in early Pentecostal culture / Grant Wacker -- Angels in the trenches : British soldiers and miracles in the first World War / Katherine Finlay -- Miracles, messiahs and the media : the ministry of A.H. Dallimore in Auckland in the 1930s / Laurie Guy -- Miracles in the making of twentiety-century Spanishness : Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Buñuel's Viridiana and Isidro el Labrador / Anthony Lappin.