A revelation of purgatory /

A Revelation of Purgatory was written by a female anchorite living in Winchester during the second decade of the fifteenth century; it provides an account of how a deceased member of her order appeared to her in four consecutive dream visions over three nights, showing her suffering in purgatory, be...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Herbert McAvoy, Liz (Editor, Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Middle English
Published: Cambridge, England : D.S. Brewer, 2017.
Series:Library of medieval women.
Subjects:
Purgatory > Early works to 1800.
Purgatoire > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Purgatory.
Early works.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The Canon and Invisibility
  • Women's Writing: The Wider Context
  • The Author of A Revelation of Purgatory
  • The Recipients of A Revelation of Purgatory
  • The Doctrine of Purgatory in the Middle Ages
  • Medieval Women's Responses to Purgatory
  • Purgatory: The English Literary Tradition
  • A Revelation of Purgatory's Sources
  • The Manuscripts
  • Notes on the Edition and Translation
  • Text and Translation.

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