Dreams, visions, and spiritual authority in Merovingian Gaul /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Moreira, Isabel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
30-1500
Merovingians > Religion.
Dreams > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Dreams > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middles Ages, 600-1500.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Christian hagiography > History.
Visions > History.
Mérovingiens > Religion.
Rêves > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire des doctrines > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Rêves > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire des doctrines > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Église > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Hagiographie chrétienne > Histoire.
Visions > Histoire.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Christian hagiography.
Church history > Middle Ages.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Visions.
Dromen.
Visioenen.
Sonho (aspectos religiosos) > Gália.
Revelação divina.
Vida cristã.
Igreja católica (história) > Gália.
Experiência religiosa > Gália.
Império merovíngio.
Gaul > Church history.
Gaule > Histoire religieuse.
Europe > Gaul.
Church history.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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. 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."--Jacket
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 262 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.
ISBN:0801474671
9780801474675
9780801436611
0801436613

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