Lourdes

Apparitions and miraclesChristian pilgrims and pilgrimagesMary, Blessed Virgin, SaintApparitionsLourdes (France)

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About this book

"Ruth Harris has written a major work of cultural and social history. She re-creates with startling vividness and intelligence the contrasting worlds of peasant pilgrims and aristocratic grandes dames, of local clergy and ecclesiastical grandees, and shows how the apparitions and cures of Lourdes fascinated contemporaries of all walks of life. Harris provides an unsettling account of a parallel world of fervent religious beliefs which offers a serious challenge to the view that the spirit of modern Europe has been exclusively secular and 'progressive'."--Jacket.

Themes & subjects

Apparitions and miraclesChristian pilgrims and pilgrimagesMary, Blessed Virgin, SaintApparitionsLourdes (France)Lourdes

Characters & people

Setting

FranceLourdesLourdes (France)

About the author

Ruth Harris

1958

Ruth Harris FBA (born 25 December 1958) is an American historian and academic. She has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford since 2011 and a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, since 2016. Previously, she was a junior research fellow at St John's College, Oxford, from 1983 to 1987, an associate professor at Smith College from 1987 to 1990, and a fellow of New College, Oxford, between 1990 and 2016. She was awarded the Wolfson History Prize in 2010 for her book The Man on Devil's Island, a biography on Alfred Dreyfus. -Wikipedia