William of Canterbury, "A Miracle of Thomas Becket: De puero syntectino" (Concerning a boy suffering from a wasting disease) (1172–77)

Rose A. Sawyer is a PhD student in the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses upon changelings and child substitution discourse in the Middle Ages, as well as other aspects of the medieval imaginative landscape. In addition to her contribution to this volume, she has contributed “‘That elfe and vile congion’: Constructing the Body of the Child as a Site of Violence through Changeling Insults and the Child Substitution Motif” to the upcoming edited volume Literary Cultures and Medieval/Early Modern Childhoods, edited by Naomi Miller and Diane Purkiss and published by Palgrave.