Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays

ISBN-13: 9780815331216 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 388 str.

Jan S. Emerson; Hugh Feiss; Jeffrey Burton Russell

Opis

This text attempts to capture a glimpse of heaven ranging from the ethereal to the mundane, utilizing means as diverse as maps, cathedrals, songs, treatises, poems, visions and even sewer systems. It examines well-known and previously unexplored texts and artifacts from the fields of history, theology, philosophy, art history and literature to compliment and challenge more general surveys of the history of heaven.

Spis treści

Corporeality: Harmony and the Senses in the Vision of Tundal, Jan S. Emerson, Eugene Oregon * The Sexualized Body in the Divine Comedy, F. Regina Psaki, University of Oregon * Desire and Fulfillment: John of F camp's Longing for Heaven, Hugh Feiss, O.S.B. * Ascension Priory Idaho, The Discourse of Heaven in Mechthild of Hackeborn's Booke of Gostlye Grace, Barbara Kline * Seattle, Washington * Heaven in Bernard of Cluny's De contemptu mundi, Ronald E. Pepin, Capital Community - Technical College 8 Hadewych of Antwerp's Dark Visions of Heaven, Mary Suydam, Kenyon College-Gambier * Transcendence: Heaven in the Theology of Hugh, Achard, and Richard of St. Victor, Hugh Feiss, O.S.B. * Ascension Priory, Idaho, Thomas Aquinas on Beatitude, Larry Hundersmarck, Pace University * Impassioned Failure: Memory, Metaphor, and the Drive toward Intellection, Dan Terkla, Illinois Wesleyan University * Heaven on Earth: An Attempt to Replicate the Heavenly City through Municipal Legislation, Robert Laures, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee * Pyramus at the Mulberry Tree: De-petrifying Dante's Tinted Mind, Christian Moevs University of Notre Dame

O autorze

Jan S. Emerson