Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and BeyondThe quiet market town of Wilsnack in northeastern Germany is unfamiliar to most English-speakers and even to many modern Germans. Yet in the fifteenth century it was a European pilgrimage site surpassed in importance only by Rome and Santiago de Compostela. The goal of pilgrimage was three miraculous hosts, supposedly discovered in the charred remains of the village church several days after it had been torched by a marauding knight in August 1383. Although the church had been burned and the spot soaked with rain, the hosts were found intact and dry, with a drop of Christ's blood at the center of each. |
Contents
cults in northern germany | 23 |
3 | 45 |
Holy Matter and the Jews | 75 |
blood disputes in fifteenthcentury | 83 |
Christs Blood in the Triduum Mortis | 112 |
the assumptions of blood piety | 133 |
Living Blood Poured Out | 153 |
Blood as Separated and Shed | 173 |
sacrifice and soteriology | 193 |
Sacrificial Theology | 210 |
11 | 229 |
12 | 249 |