Visions in late medieval England : lay spirituality and sacred glimpses of the hidden worlds of faith / by Gwenfair Walters Adams
- Author
- Adams, Gwenfair Walters
- Published
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 273 pages).
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- 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.
- Summary
- 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 spirituality that the visions shaped and sustained.
- Subject(s)
- To 1500
- Visions—History—To 1500
- Spirituality—History of doctrines—Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Spiritual warfare—History—To 1500
- Church history—Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Spiritualité—Histoire des doctrines—600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
- Église—Histoire—600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
- RELIGION—Christian Life—General
- Church history—Middle Ages
- Spiritual warfare
- Visions
- Visioenen
- Leken
- England—Church history—1066-1485
- Angleterre—Histoire religieuse—1066-1485
- England
- Engeland
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9789047419259 (electronic bk.)
9047419251 (electronic bk.)
1281917206
9781281917201
9004156062 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9789004156067 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9786611917203
6611917209 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-246) and index.
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