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Author: Jesse Keskiaho
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-19
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1107082137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive overview of ideas about dreams and visions in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages.
Author: Steven F. Kruger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-06-18
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 052141069X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephen Kruger considers previously neglected material and arrives at a new understanding of this literary genre, and of medieval attitudes to dreaming in general.
Author: Bart J. Koet
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the book presented here, one encounters dreams and visions from the history of Christianity. Faculty members of the Tilburg School of Theology (TST; Tilburg University, The Netherlands) and other (Dutch and Flemish) experts in theology, Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages present a collection of articles examining the phenomenon of dreaming in the Christian realm from the first to the thirteenth century. Their aim is to investigate the dream world of Christians as a source of historical theology and spirituality. They try to show and explain the importance and function of dreams in the context of the texts discussed, meanwhile making these texts accessible and understandable to the people of today. By contextualizing those dreams in their own historical imagery, the authors want to give the reader some insight into the fascinating dream world of the past, which in turn will inspire him or her to consider the dream world of today.
Author: Paul Edward Dutton
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780803216532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the reigns of Charlemagne and Charles the Fat, Europe underwent a series of alarming and unsettling changes. Civil war broke out, royal authority was divided, and the brightest of men and women began to entertain nightmarish thoughts of the corruption and collapse of their world. Amidst the ruin of their shaken and shattered assumptions, Carolingian intellectuals wrote down a series of dream texts. The Carolingian oneiric record, though dark with confusion and immoderate emotion, supplies us with a more subjective reading of this formative period of European history than the one found in standard histories. Carolingian dream-authors criticized and complained because they hoped to reform a royal society that had lost its way. This study begins by surveying the sleep of kings and the status of royal dreams from the classical period to the ninth century. Then it runs to an examination of individual dreams and the political disruption that informs them. The reader will encounter a variety of surprising dreams: of Charlemagne's lust, demons and archangels, a sorrowful prophet, disputed property and bullying saints, magical swords and mad princes, and Charles the Fat's journey through an awesome otherworld towards an uncertain constitutional future.
Author: A. C. Spearing
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1976-11-11
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521211949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1976 book is a study of the medieval English dream-poem set against classical and medieval visionary and religious writings.
Author: Jesse Keskiaho
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781316252154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive overview of ideas about dreams and visions in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages.
Author: Colum Hourihane
Publisher: Index of Christian Art Department of Art and Archeology Princeton
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays examining the the concept of representing visions and dreams in the medieval period. Includes discussions of modern visions which highlight how our belief in the non-corporal world still exists.
Author: Gwenfair Walters Adams
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9004156062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the first to explore the breadth of vision types in late medieval English lay spirituality. Analyzing 1000+ accounts, it proposes that visions buttressed five core dynamics (relating to purgatory, saints, demons, sacramental faith, and the Church's authority).
Author: Megan G. Leitch
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2021-07-06
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 152615109X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiddle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral discourses by which it is shaped, sleep also sheds light on subjects in favour of which it has hitherto been overlooked: what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (desire and sex). This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau.
Author: Jean-Claude Schmitt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998-04-28
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780226738871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this fascinating study, Schmitt examines the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts during the Middle Ages and traces the imaginative, political, and religious contexts of these everyday haunts. Ghosts were pitiful or terrifying, usually solitary, creatures who arose from their tombs to haunt their friends and relatives. Including numerous color illustrations of ghosts and their trappings, this book presents a unique and intriguing look at medieval culture. 28 color plates.
