Bernard Gui, On a Miracle of Saint Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1325)

Leigh Ann Craig is an associate professor of History and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in History at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her recent research has focused on loss of mind (including both physical illness and demonic affliction), disability, and community in Latin Christendom, especially as it appears in later medieval miracle stories. Her publications include Wandering Women and Holy Matrons: Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages (Brill, 2009); “The Spirit of Madness: Doubt and the Miraculous Restoration of Sanity in the Miracles of Henry VI,” Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (2013); “The History of Madness and Mental Illness in the Middle Ages: Directions and Questions,” History Compass (2014); and “Describing Death and Resurrection: Medicine and the Humors in Two Late Medieval Miracles,” in The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing: Sites, Objects, and Texts (Routledge, 2016).