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 volume is the first to map out the wide range...
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| Superior document: | Studies in the history of Christian traditions, v. 130 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the history of Christian traditions ;
v. 130. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.