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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Adams, Gwenfair Walters
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
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.