List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chapter 1 – Understanding Belief and Doubt in the Middle Ages Chapter 2 – What is Wonder? Contemporary and Medieval Views Chapter 3 – Wonder, Fear, Orality, and Community Chapter 4 – Wonder, Entertainment, and Fascination: Travel, Architecture, Objects Chapter 5 – The Marvels of Faith: Wonder and Christian Belief Chapter 6 – Towards a Medieval Epistemology: Evidentiary Frameworks Underpinning Belief in Marvels Chapter 7 – Sensory Experience, Experimentation, and Global Skepticism Chapter 8 – Three Stories, and Some Macro-Level Questions Bibliography Index
Biography
Keagan Brewer is based at the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Sydney. His previous publications include Prester John: the Legend and its Sources (2015).
"This is an intriguing study of marvels, miracles and wonder stories and the ways medieval people responded to them. Brewer integrates studies in neuroscience, modern social psychology, and reception theory to investigate how readers and listeners reacted to stories of wonder, and to show how their demands for proof contributed to the development of medieval skepticism."
Kathleen Kamerick, University of Iowa, USA
