Visions in late medieval England : lay spirituality and sacred glimpses of the hidden worlds of faith / by Gwenfair Walters Adams.
Visions were highly popular in the late Middle Ages, whether preached as vivid stories from the pulpit, illuminated in saint-filled manuscripts, or experienced during the breathless anticipation of a Mass or eerie darkness of a Yorkshire graveyard. This book explores five central dynamics of spiritu...
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Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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Series: | Studies in the history of Christian traditions ;
v. 130. |
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Table of Contents:
- Transactions of satisfaction and visions of the otherworld
- Reciprocated devotion and visitations of the saints
- Spiritual warfare in demonic encounters
- Seeing through the surface : vision as supra-sacramental sight
- Visions, power, and the dynamic of mediated revelation
- Appendix A : Vision : range of uses of term in late medieval England
- Appendix B : Byland Abbey ghost stories as contemporary accounts
- Appendix C : Additional visions and vision types.