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Author : Jesse Keskiaho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Church history
ISBN : 1316252159
A comprehensive overview of ideas about dreams and visions in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages.
Author : Jesse Keskiaho
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316240809
Dreams and visions played important roles in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages. But not only did tradition and authoritative texts teach that some dreams were divine: some also pointed out that this was not always the case. Exploring a broad range of narrative sources and manuscripts, Jesse Keskiaho investigates how the teachings of Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory the Great on dreams and visions were read and used in different contexts. Keskiaho argues that the early medieval processes of reception in a sense created patristic opinion about dreams and visions, resulting in a set of authoritative ideas that could be used both to defend and to question reports of individual visionary experiences. This book is a major contribution to discussions about the intellectual place of dreams and visions in the early Middle Ages, and underlines the creative nature of early medieval engagement with authoritative texts.
Author : Jesse Keskiaho
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107082137
A comprehensive overview of ideas about dreams and visions in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages.
Author : Kathryn Lynch
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804766418
In the High Middle Ages, the dream narrative was an enormously popular and influential form. Along with the romance, it was perhaps the genre of the age. It has come down to us in such classics twelfth to fourteenth-century classics as The Divine Comedy, the Romance of the Rose, Piers Plowman, Chaucer's early poetry, and the works of Guillaume de Machaut. This book redefines the dream vision by attending to its role in philosophical debate of the time, a conservative role in defense of the high medieval synthesis of reason and revelation. Lynch shows how the epistemological basis of this synthesis and the theories of visions that emerged from it drew on Arabic commentaries of Aristotle. These theories informed poetic visions modeled on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a work she discusses in detail before turning to Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, and Dante. A final section, on John Gower's Confessio Amantis shows how fourteenth and fifteenth-century writers extended and finally moved beyond the conventional form of the dream vision.
Author : Steven F. Kruger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521410694
Stephen Kruger considers previously neglected material and arrives at a new understanding of this literary genre, and of medieval attitudes to dreaming in general.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110610963
Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlations between the individual and space throughout time, which contributed essentially to identity formation in many different settings. The contributors to this volume engage with a variety of pre-modern texts, images, and other documents related to travel and the individual's self-orientation in foreign lands and make an effort to determine the concept of identity within a spatial framework often determined by the meeting of various cultures. Moreover, objects, images and words can also travel and connect people from different worlds through books. The volume thus brings together new scholarship focused on the interrelationship of travel, space, time, and individuality, which also includes, of course, women's movement through the larger world, whether in concrete terms or through proxy travel via readings. Travel here is also examined with respect to craftsmen's activities at various sites, artists' employment for many different projects all over Europe and elsewhere, and in terms of metaphysical experiences (catabasis).
Author : Hannah W. Matis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004389250
Hannah Matis examines how a biblical text was read by the most important figures within the ninth-century Carolingian Reform to think about the nature of Christ and the church.
Author : Lisa Lettau
Publisher : ProQuest
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Christian literature
ISBN : 0549811532
In this study, I examine dream visions and mystical writings of the late Middle Ages to explore how medieval Christians were defining their individualism and creating a selfhood that encompassed their burgeoning desire for individuality even as they conformed to acceptable social and religious influences. Through Church teaching, medieval Christians understood that humankind had originally been created in the image of God, but that the perfection of humanity as godlike was destroyed in the Fall. In order to develop an identity that could live in the world and yet achieve eternal life, medieval Christians would first have to rectify the seeming disconnect between their physical form and their spiritual one. These visionary works provide the authors' understanding of medieval selfhood either through an attempt to correct the flaw or to accept it as part of humanity. Chapter One introduces my theoretical platform and the critical history of scholarly studies of medieval subjectivity. Chapter Two focuses on the nature of people as physical and spiritual beings in a dream poem, Pearl, by exploring how physical senses inhibit and enhance spiritual understanding. In Chapter Three I examine personal growth and higher understanding in Julian of Norwich's A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love, which describe the revelation she received in a vision from God, and Mum and the Sothsegger, which offers a dream vision episode within the confines of a debate poem. In Chapter Four, Luke's gospel story of Martha and Mary provides a backdrop for examining The Cloud of Unknowing and Piers Plowman in conjunction. By seeking the best form of living, these works develop medieval views on the two options that Jesus has given: active and contemplative. The final chapter ties two seemingly disparate texts together, The Book of Margery Kempe and Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess. Although Kempe emphasizes a personal relationship with God and Chaucer sees selfhood unified through the melding of spirit and body required to produce art, both recognize the importance of written text for inspiring others to wholeness of being.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110693782
The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the early modern age as to how they came to terms with their perceptions, images, and notions. Previous scholarship focused heavily on the history of mentality and history of emotions, whereas here the history of pre-modern imagination, and fantasy assumes center position. Imaginary things are taken seriously because medieval and early modern writers and artists clearly reveal their great significance in their works and their daily lives. This approach facilitates a new deep-structure analysis of pre-modern culture.
Author : Bonnie Effros,Isabel Moreira
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190234195
The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least well known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabitants of Gaul (what now comprises France, southern Belgium, Luxembourg, Rhineland Germany, and part of modern Switzerland), a mix of Gallo-Roman inhabitants and Germanic arrivals under the political control of the Merovingian dynasty, sought to preserve, use, and reimagine the political, cultural, and religious power of ancient Rome while simultaneously forging the beginnings of what would become medieval European culture. The forty-six essays included in this volume highlight why the Merovingian era is at the heart of historical debates about what happened to Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. The essays demonstrate that the inhabitants of the Merovingian kingdoms in these centuries created a culture that was the product of these traditions and achieved a balance between the world they inherited and the imaginative solutions they bequeathed to Europe. The Handbook highlights new perspectives and scientific approaches that shape our changing view of this extraordinary era by showing that Merovingian Gaul was situated at the crossroads of Europe, connecting the Mediterranean and the British Isles with the Byzantine empire, and it benefited from the global reach of the late Roman Empire. It tells the story of the Merovingian world through archaeology, bio-archaeology, architecture, hagiographic literature, history, liturgy, visionary literature and eschatology, patristics, numismatics, and material culture.
Author : Patrick J. Geary
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501721632
Whereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women accorded them a vital role in the community. The saints counted most prominently as potential intercessors before God, but the ordinary dead as well were called upon to aid the living, and even to participate in the negotiation of political disputes. In this book, the distinguished medievalist Patrick J. Geary shows how exploring the complex relations between the living and dead can broaden our understanding of the political, economic, and cultural history of medieval Europe. Geary has brought together for this volume twelve of his most influential essays. They address such topics as the development of saints' cults and of the concept of sacred space; the integration of saints' cults into the lives of ordinary people; patterns of relic circulation; and the role of the dead in negotiating the claims and counterclaims of various interest groups. Also included are two case studies of communities that enlisted new patron saints to solve their problems. Throughout, Geary demonstrates that, by reading actions, artifacts, and rituals on an equal footing with texts, we can better grasp the otherness of past societies.
Author : John Renard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520962903
Arguably the single most important element in Abrahamic cross-confessional relations has been an ongoing mutual interest in perennial spiritual and ethical exemplars of one another’s communities. Ranging from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Crossing Confessional Boundaries explores the complex roles played by saints, sages, and Friends of God in the communal and intercommunal lives of Christians, Muslims, and Jews across the Mediterranean world, from Spain and North Africa to the Middle East to the Balkans. By examining these stories in their broad institutional, social, and cultural contexts, Crossing Confessional Boundaries reveals unique theological insights into the interlocking histories of the Abrahamic faiths.
Author : Isabel Moreira
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0801436613
Drawing on a rich variety of sources - histories, hagiographies, ascetic literature, and records of dreams at saints' shrines - Isabel Moreira provides insight into a society struggling to understand and negotiate its religious visions."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Gwenfair Walters Adams
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047419259
This journal is no longer published by VSP / Brill.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004468498
A companion volume for the usage of medieval miracle collections as a source, offering versatile approaches to the origins, methods, and techniques of various types of miracle narratives, as well as fascinating case studies from across Europe.
