Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays

ISBN-13: 9781138012066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 364 str.

Jan S. Emerson;¬Abar;¬Abar

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.

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