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Dreams, visions, and spiritual authority in Merovingian Gaul /

"In early medieval Europe, dreams and visions were believed to reveal divine information about Christian life and the hereafter. No consensus existed, however, as to whether all Christians, or only a spiritual elite, were entitled to have a relationship of this sort with the supernatural. Drawi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moreira, Isabel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Visionary Access. 1. Visionary Access in Christian Antiquity: The Making of Two Traditions. 2. Daniel's Heirs: Visionary Ascetics in Gaul
  • pt. 2. Visions and Authority in the Merovingian Community. 3. Gregory of Tours: A Visionary Bishop. 4. Dreams and Visions at the Shrines of the Saints. 5. Visionary Journeys to the Otherworld
  • pt. 3. Dreams and Visions in Merovingian Hagiography. 6. Visions and the Hagiographer in Merovingian Sources. 7. No Ordinary Visionary: St. Aldegund of Maubeuge
  • App. A. Otherworld Visions and Apocalypses
  • App. B. The Earliest Vitae of Aldegund of Maubeuge.