Envisaging heaven in the Middle ages [electronic resource] / edited by Carolyn Muessig and Ad Putter ; with the assistance of Gareth Griffith and Judith Jefferson.
Series: Routledge studies in medieval religion and culturePublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.Description: x, 258 p. : illISBN:- 9780203966211
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Includes index.
pt. 1. Introduction -- Envisaging heaven : an introduction / Carolyn Muessig and Ad Putter -- pt. 2. : The theology of heaven -- Visio dei : seeing God in medieval theology and mysticism / Bernard McGinn -- Constructing heaven in Hildegard of Bingens expositiones euangeliorum / Beverly Kienzle -- The completeness of heaven / Peter Dronke -- Heaven, earth and the angels : preaching paradise in the sermons of Jacques de Vitry / Carolyn Muessig -- Mystical and visionary traditions : access to heaven in medieval visions of the otherworld / Robert Easting -- Bringing heaven down to earth : beguine constructions of heaven / Mary Suydam -- Von aller bilden bildlosekeit : the trouble with images of heaven in the works of Henry Suso / Steven Rozenski -- Marguerite Porete : courtliness and ranscendence in the mirror of simple souls / A.C. Spearing -- pt. 3. The art of heaven -- Some high place : actualizing heaven in the Middle ages / Peter Meredith -- Heaven as performance and participation in the symphonia armonie celestium revelationum of Hildegard of Bingen / Steven D'Evelyn -- After lives now : a study of paradiso canto 28 / Robin Kirkpatrick -- The artifice of eternity : speaking of heaven in three medieval poems / Barbara Newman -- pt. 4. Vernacular appropriations -- Exchanging blood for wine : envisaging heaven in Irish bardic poetry / Salvador Ryan -- Chaucer's lovers in metaphorical heaven / Elizabeth Archibald -- The influence of visions of the otherworld on some medieval romances / Ad Putter.
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