Word Image & Experience

Dynamics of Miracle and SelfPerception in SixthCentury Gaul. Focusing on the works of bishop Gregory of Tours 539-594 and the poet Venantius Fortunatus 540-c.604, in later life bishop of Poitiers, Dr de Nie gives in these innovative studies a new understanding of the miracle stories that populate their writing, but are so often dismissed as of little worth. Their perceptions of miracles - and their renderings of the human self-awareness through which miracles are perceived and happen - are analysed as attempts, mostly rooted in models from the Bible, to adjust the early Christian tradition so as to make sense of, and protect