Stories
- In pictures
Miracle cure-alls throughout the ages
From the elixir of life to radium, humans have always searched for a panacea: something to cure every ill. But instead it’s only highlighted our anxieties and preoccupations throughout history.
- In pictures
A short history of Christian martyrs and miracles
Join Ben Gazur as he explores the origins, relics and power of Christian martyrs, and their continuing relevance for Catholics in the 21st century.
- Article
Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
- Article
The conditional child
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.
Catalogue
- Videos
Miracles in the womb.
Date: 2007- Books
Miracles chez les médecins / [Maxime Briant].
Briant, Maxime.Date: [1954]- Books
Miracles of military medicine / Albert Q. Maisel.
Maisel, Albert Q.Date: [????]- Books
Miracles and natural events in the Bible / L. Wislicki.
Wislicki, L.Date: 1982- Student dissertations
Miracles and medicine in the nineteenth century / Sheila Roney.
Roney, Sheila.Date: 1990