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Visions in late medieval England [electronic resource] : lay spirituality and sacred glimpses of the hidden worlds of faith / by Gwenfair Walters Adams.

By: Adams, Gwenfair Walters.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Studies in the history of Christian traditions: v. 130.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007Description: xxiii, 273 p. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Visions -- History -- To 1500 | Spirituality -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 | Spiritual warfare -- History -- To 1500 | Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 | England -- Church history -- 1066-1485Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 248.2/9 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Transactions of satisfaction and visions of the otherworld -- Reciprocated devotion and visitations of the saints -- Spiritual warfare in demonic encounters -- Seeing through the surface : vision as supra-sacramental sight -- Visions, power, and the dynamic of mediated revelation -- Appendix A : Vision : range of uses of term in late medieval England -- Appendix B : Byland Abbey ghost stories as contemporary accounts -- Appendix C : Additional visions and vision types.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-246) and index.

Transactions of satisfaction and visions of the otherworld -- Reciprocated devotion and visitations of the saints -- Spiritual warfare in demonic encounters -- Seeing through the surface : vision as supra-sacramental sight -- Visions, power, and the dynamic of mediated revelation -- Appendix A : Vision : range of uses of term in late medieval England -- Appendix B : Byland Abbey ghost stories as contemporary accounts -- Appendix C : Additional visions and vision types.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.