Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9780415383837 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 256 str.

Carolyn Muessig; Ad Putter; Gareth Griffith

Opis

and of creative, wishful imagination.
With contributions from such experts as Peter Dronke, Robin Kirkpatrick, Peter Meredith, Bernard McGinn, Barbara Newman and A.C. Spearing, this collection will be essential reading for all those interested in medieval religion and culture.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Envisaging Heaven  2. Visio Dei  3. Constructing Heaven in Hildegard of Bingen’s Expositiones Euangeliorum  4. The Completeness of Heaven  5. Heaven, Earth and the Angels  6. Access to Heaven in Medieval Visions of the Otherworld  7. Bringing Heaven Down To Earth  8. Von Aller Bilden Bildlosekeit  9. Marguerite Porete  10. ‘Some High Place’  11. Heaven as Performance and Participation in the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum  12. After Lives Now  13. The Artifice of Eternity  14. Exchanging Blood for Wine  15. Chaucer’s Lovers in Metaphorical Heaven  16. The Influence of Visions of the Otherworld on some Medieval Romances  Index

O autorze

Carolyn Muessig, Ad Putter