Originally published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2001.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Women and miracle stories: introduction / Anne-Marie Korte -- Magic, miracle and miracle workers in the Acts of Thecla / Magda Misset-van de Weg -- Fatherly and motherly curing in sixth-century Gaul: Saint Radegund's Mysterium / Giselle de Nie -- Women in Columba's life, as seen through the eyes of his biographer Adomnn / Jacqueline Borsje -- Fresh water for a tired soul: pregnancy and messianic desire in a mediaeval Jewish document from Sicily / Marcel Poorthuis & Chana Safrai -- The life of Christina Mirabilis: miracles and the construction of marginality / Anke E. Passenier -- In pain you shall bear children (Gen 3:16): medieval prayers for a safe delivery / Marianne Elsakkers -- A woman alone: the beatification of Friederike Hauffe ne Wanner (1801-1829) / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- Mariyamman's Ṣakti: the miraculous power of a smallpox goddess / Anne van Voorthuizen -- Women and miracles in the stories of Ingeborg Bachmann / Ilse N. Bulhof -- Miracles of desire: transfigurations in Rhoda Lerman's The book of the night / Inez van der Spek -- A different grace: epilogue / Anne-Marie Korte.