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HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY THOMAS OF MONMOUTH CONTENTS AND PURPOSE THE FABRICATION OF JEWISH GUILT NORWICH AND NORFOLK DURING STEPHEN’S REIGN DEVOTIONAL CULTURE NOTES

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Prologue The Life and Passion of William of Norwich

Book One

[I] OF THE PORTENT IN THE MOTHER’S DREAM [II] ON HIS BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD [III] HOW HE WAS IN THE HABIT OF GOING OUT OF HIS WAY TO THE JEWS, FOR WHICH HE WAS REBUKED BY HIS FAMILY, AND HENCEFORWARD KEPT HIMSELF AWAY FROM THEM [IV] HOW HE WAS ABDUCTED BY THE MESSENGER OF THE JEWS [V] HOW AFTER ENTERING THE JEWS’ HOUSE HE WAS CAPTURED, MOCKED AND KILLED [VI] HOW THEY ACCEPTED THE PLAN TO HIDE HIM [VII] HOW HE WAS CARRIED AND BURIED IN THE WOOD [VIII] HOW THEY WERE FREED OF FEAR BY GIVING THE SHERIFF 100 MARKS [IX] HOW LIGHT SHONE FROM HEAVEN ABOVE HIS BODY IN THE SHAPE OF A FIERY LADDER [X] HOW AND BY WHOM HE WAS FOUND [XI] ITEM, THE SECOND FINDING [XII] HOW HE WAS BURIED IN THE WOOD [XIII] HOW THE PRIEST GODWIN STROVE TO FIND OUT WHETHER IT WAS WILLIAM [XIV] ON THE PROPHETIC VISION OF HIS MATERNAL AUNT [XV] ON THE MOTHER’S LAMENT [XVI] HOW THE PRIEST GODWIN ACCUSED THE JEWS AT THE SYNOD, AND HOW HE OFFERED HIMSELF TO PROVE BY ORDEAL THAT THEY WERE GUILTY OF THE DEATH OF THE BOY WILLIAM [XVII] HOW AIMAR, PRIOR OF ST PANCRAS, SOUGHT A LICENCE TO TAKE THE BODY OF THE HOLY MARTYR AWAY WITH HIM [XVIII] HOW HE WAS CARRIED AND WASHED AND FOUND TO BE UNCORRUPTED [XIX] ON HIS BURIAL IN THE MONKS’ CEMETERY

Book Two

[I] AN ANSWER TO THOSE WHO DISPARAGE HIS SANCTITY [II] A COMMENDATION OF THE VIRGINITY OF THE INNOCENT MARTYR AND HIS ILLUSTRIOUS SANCTITY [III] ABOUT A ROSE WHICH BLOSSOMED AGAIN AT HIS TOMB IN WINTER TIME [IV] OF THE WONDROUS VISION OF A CERTAIN SICK PERSON, AND OF HIS CURE [V] ON A SIMILAR VISION OF A CERTAIN GIRL [VI] OF A PREGNANT WOMAN MIRACULOUSLY FREED [FROM PAIN] [VII] OF A CERTAIN VIRGIN FROM DUNWICH WHO WAS FREED FROM THE MOLESTATION OF AN INCUBUS DEMON [VIII] A WARNING TO THOSE WHO DISMISS THE MIRACLES OF SAINT WILLIAM, AND WHO DENY OR DOUBT THAT HE WAS KILLED BY THE JEWS [IX] FIRST PROOF SECOND PROOF [X] THE THIRD PROOF FOURTH PROOF [XI] FIFTH PROOF SIXTH PROOF [XII] SEVENTH PROOF CONCLUSION [XIII] WHAT END THE CHRISTIAN-KILLER JEWS HAD BY DIVINE VENGEANCE XIV AN IMAGINARY ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL XV HOW THE JUDGEMENT OF DIVINE REVENGE APPEARED WITH REGARD TO JOHN THE SHERIFF, PROTECTOR OF THE JEWS

Book Three

[I] OF THE TRANSLATION OF THE SAINT’S BODY TO THE CHAPTERHOUSE [II] OF THE PUBLIC RISING OF THE TOMB [III] OF THE CLOTH THAT WAS REMOVED AND THE LIGHT THAT WAS FORBIDDEN [IV] OF A CERTAIN CLERK RELIEVED OF TOOTHACHE [V] OF A MONK CURED OF A SIMILAR PAIN [VI] OF THE VENERABLE VISION OF A CERTAIN RELIGIOUS MAN [VII] OF A CERTAIN WOMAN CURED OF A LONG-STANDING ILLNESS [VIII] OF ANOTHER FREED FROM THE FLUX OF BLOOD [IX] OF A BOY ON HIS DEATHBED CURED BY THE MERITS OF SAINT WILLIAM [X] HOW A MONK RECOVERED THE ABILITY TO SLEEP, WHICH HE HAD LOST, BY THE MERITS OF SAINT WILLIAM [XI] THAT LADY MABEL OF BEC AND HER SONS FREQUENTLY EXPERIENCED THE POWER OF THE HOLY MARTYR [XII] OF THE VISION OF THE MONK RICHARD, AND HIS DEATH, AND HIS RECOVERY OF SIGHT [XIII] HOW WILLIAM, SACRIST OF NORWICH, WAS CURED OF HEADACHE, DEAFNESS AND POOR SIGHT [XIV] OF A WOMAN CURED OF A LONG-STANDING DISEASE [XV] OF ANOTHER WHO WAS MIRACULOUSLY CURED BY A VISION [XVI] OF A MUTE FROM BIRTH, CURED [XVII] OF A BOY CURED OF DYSENTERY [XVIII] OF A CERTAIN WOMAN WHO WAS CURED OF A LONG-STANDING ILLNESS [XIX] OF SAILORS FREED AT SEA [XX] OF A POOR WOMAN’S PIG WHO WAS CURED [XXI] OF SICK OXEN RETURNED TO HEALTH [XXII] OF A CERTAIN IDA, MIRACULOUSLY CURED [XXIII] OF A CERTAIN MEMORABLE VISION [XXIV] OF A CERTAIN GOLDEBURGA WHO WAS CURED [XXV] OF A GIRL CURED OF FEVERS [XXVI] OF A DROPSY SUFFERER WHO WAS CURED [XXVII] OF A WEAK BOY WHO WAS CURED [XXVIII] OF A CERTAIN HILDEBRAND WHO WAS CURED [XXIX] OF THE CLERK AND THE PALFREY OF THE SACRIST OF CHRIST CHURCH, CANTERBURY, WHO WERE CURED [XXX] OF A CERTAIN SICK EMMA WHO WAS CURED [XXXI] HOW MANY WERE CURED BY DRINKING SCRAPINGS FROM THE TOMB [XXXII] OF A CERTAIN MAN WHO WAS CURED OF A SWELLING OF THE THROAT

Book Four

[I] ON THE HARDENING [OF THE HEART] OF PRIOR ELIAS AND HIS DEATH [II] OF THE SON OF A CERTAIN GURWANN, WHO WAS CURED, AND OF A BLIND MAN WHO GAINED HIS SIGHT [III] OF RALPH THE MONEYER OF NORWICH, WHOSE ILLNESS WAS CURED, AND HIS SERVANT WHO WAS INSANE AND WAS CURED [IV] OF AGNES, THE WIFE OF REGINALD THE COWHERD, FREED FROM THE FLUX OF BLOOD [V] OF A CERTAIN BOTILDA, LANGUISHING AND THEN CURED [VI] OF THE DAUGHTER OF THE SMITH OF POSTWICK, WHO WAS ILL AND WAS CURED [VII] HOW THE SAINT WARNED IN A VISION THAT HIS TOMB BE TENDED AND KEPT VERY CLEAN AND PROTECTED [VIII] OF THE MIRACLE BY WHICH HE RECOVERED THE CLOTH THAT HAD BEEN REMOVED [IX] ON THE REVELATION OF THE HOLY TEETH AND THE CURE OF WILLIAM THE SACRIST; AND OF HIS DEATH FOLLOWING THE BREAKING OF A VOW [X] HOW THE MARTYR HELPED THOSE ENDANGERED AT SEA, AND CURED A MOTHER AND SON THROUGH THE FINDING OF A SPRING [XI] OF A CERTAIN WOMAN CURED OF A LONG-STANDING ILLNESS, AND OF ANOTHER WHO RECOVERED HER LOST SIGHT [XII] OF A CERTAIN PRIEST AND HIS FAMILY, AND A CERTAIN WOMAN WHO WAS CURED [XIII] OF AN INSANE GIRL CURED, AND MANY OTHERS

Book Five

[I] OF HIS TRANSLATION FROM THE CHAPTERHOUSE INTO THE CHURCH [II] HOW AFTER THE MARTYR WAS TRANSLATED, ON THE FOLLOWING NIGHT, THE SACRIST HEARD MIRACULOUS THINGS IN THE CHAPTERHOUSE [III] OF THE YOUTH WHO VOMITED LIVE SERPENTS [IV] OF SOME PEOPLE WHO WERE CURED OF THE BURNING OF FEVERS BY SAINT WILLIAM [V] HOW HE CORRECTED THE PRIEST GODWIN, AS IF JOKING, AND CALLED HIM BACK FROM UNJUST PROFIT [VI] OF A SICK PERSON CURED BY TOUCHING THE TOMB [VII] OF THE GOLDEN RING DISCOVERED BY A VISION [VIII] OF A SUFFERER FROM DROPSY WHO WAS CURED AT AN AMAZING SPEED [IX] OF A DEAN OF THE PROVINCE OF LINCOLN WHO WAS CURED [X] OF GERARD, FREED FROM HIS SHACKLES [XI] OF A PSALTER LOST AND THEN FOUND [XII] OF A DEMONIAC WHO WAS CURED BY THE MERITS OF SAINT WILLIAM [XIII] OF ANOTHER INSANE PERSON WHO WAS CURED [XIV] OF A BENT WOMAN ON CRUTCHES WHO WAS CURED [XV] OF ANOTHER WOMAN, WEAK IN HER WHOLE BODY, WHO WAS CURED [XVI] OF A GIRL WHO WAS BENT AND DUMB AND WAS CURED [XVII] OF ANOTHER GIRL BLIND, DEAF AND DUMB FROM BIRTH [XVIII] OF A CERTAIN BOY MIRACULOUSLY CURED [XIX] OF A CERTAIN CLERK AT DEATH’S DOOR WHO WAS RESTORED TO HEALTH [XX] OF A MONK CURED BY A VISION [XXI] OF THE MOTHER OF SAINT WILLIAM THE MARTYR AND HOW HER ILLNESS, AND DEATH FROM IT, WERE ANNOUNCED BY A VISION [XXII] OF A WOMAN CURED OF A PAINFUL CONDITION AND OF A GRAVE AND LONG-STANDING SWELLING IN HER KNEES [XXIII] OF ANOTHER WOMAN CURED OF A LONG-STANDING DEAFNESS OF THE EARS

Book Six

[I] OF THE FOURTH TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY MARTYR FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE HIGH ALTAR TO THE NORTH SIDE, TO AN ALTAR WHICH WAS CALLED ‘OF THE HOLY MARTYRS’ [II] OF THE DAUGHTER OF REGINALD OF WARENNE MIRACULOUSLY CURED [III] OF A CERTAIN MAN WHO WAS CURED FROM AN ACUTE PAIN IN HIS FOOT [IV] OF A CERTAIN INSANE EVERARD WHO WAS CURED [V] OF ANOTHER MAN RESTORED TO HEALTH FROM AN AMAZING INSANITY [VI] OF AN INSANE WOMAN WHO WAS CURED [VII] OF A BOY FREED FROM EPILEPSY [VIII] OF A BLIND WOMAN WHO GAINED HER EYESIGHT [IX] OF PHILIP DE BELLA ARBORE AND THE IRON RING – AROUND HIS ARM – WHICH WAS SHATTERED [X] OF ANOTHER MAN WHO WAS FREED OF AN IRON RING ON HIS RIGHT ARM [XI] COMMENDATION OF THE MIRACLE [XII] OF A CERTAIN WOMAN, AMAZINGLY BENT, WHO WAS CURED [XIII] OF A BENT AND HUNCHBACK BOY WHO WAS CURED [XIV] OF A WOMAN WHO HAD SWOLLEN UP AMAZINGLY AND WAS CURED [XV] OF ANOTHER WOMAN WITH A GOITRE, WHO WAS CURED [XVI] OF A MAN WHO WAS SWOLLEN BY THE BREATH OF A SERPENT AND WAS CURED [XVII] OF A MAIDEN WHOSE BREAST WAS MIRACULOUSLY CURED [XVIII] OF SOME PEOPLE SAVED AT SEA AND OF A TEMPEST WHICH WAS QUELLED [XIX] OF TWO MEN BOUND IN IRONS AND LIBERATED [XX] OF ANOTHER [XXI] OF THE FALCON OF ALBERT GRESLEY, WHICH WAS MIRACULOUSLY CURED

Book Seven

PROLOGUE [I] OF REIMBERT THE STEWARD OF THE ABBOT OF BATTLE [II] OF A PARALYSED PERSON WHO WAS CURED [III] OF AN INSANE CLERK WHO WAS CURED [IV] OF A WOMAN CURED OF A LONG-STANDING DISEASE [V] OF A BOY CURED BY HIS FATHER’S VOW [VI] OF A WOMAN WHO WAS TWICE CURED OF THE SICKNESS OF CANCER [VII] OF A MIRACULOUS SIGN IN WAX [VIII] OF A CROWD OF SUFFERERS WHICH WAS CURED [IX] OF A BOY WHO WAS BLIND, DEAF, DUMB AND WEAK IN HIS WHOLE BODY FROM BIRTH, WHO WAS CURED [X] OF THE CURE OF ROBERT THE BENT [XI] OF ANOTHER WEAK PERSON WHO WAS CURED [XII] OF A BENT WOMAN WHO WAS MADE UPRIGHT [XIII] OF A CERTAIN MAN OF EVIL SPEECH WHO WAS MIRACULOUSLY CHASTISED BY A VISION [XIV] [XV] [XVI] [XVII] [XVIII] [XIX]

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