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Author Moreira, Isabel

Title Dreams, visions, and spiritual authority in Merovingian Gaul / Isabel Moreira
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 262 pages)
Contents pt. I. Visionary Access. 1. Visionary Access in Christian Antiquity: The Making of Two Traditions. 2. Daniel's Heirs: Visionary Ascetics in Gaul -- pt. 2. Visions and Authority in the Merovingian Community. 3. Gregory of Tours: A Visionary Bishop. 4. Dreams and Visions at the Shrines of the Saints. 5. Visionary Journeys to the Otherworld -- pt. 3. Dreams and Visions in Merovingian Hagiography. 6. Visions and the Hagiographer in Merovingian Sources. 7. No Ordinary Visionary: St. Aldegund of Maubeuge -- App. A. Otherworld Visions and Apocalypses -- App. B. The Earliest Vitae of Aldegund of Maubeuge
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index
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Subject 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
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Christian hagiography
Church history -- Middle Ages
Church history -- Primitive and early church
Merovingians -- Religion
Visions
Dromen.
Visioenen.
Sonho (aspectos religiosos) -- Gália.
Revelação divina.
Vida cristã.
Igreja católica (história) -- Gália.
Experiência religiosa -- Gália.
Império merovíngio.
SUBJECT Gaul -- Church history
Subject Europe -- Gaul
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0801474671
9780801474675
9780801436611
0801436613