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The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages

The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages

by Robert Bartlett

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

The story of 14th-century Welsh rebel William Cragh, his miraculous survival after being hanged in the gallows, and Bishop Thomas de Cantilupe, whose prayer many thought saved the doomed Cragh. Bartlett draws the story, in part, from canonization hearings of the Bishop.  (GBR535, $18.95)


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