Description: ABOUT THIS BOOK: Visions, a visionary world view, and distinctive habits of mental and corporeal sight defined the boundaries of medieval reality. Extraordinary appearances—visual portents, dream messages from the dead, divine and infernal warnings, intellectual illuminations, visions of the future—complemented ordinary sight. In nine closely related essays, Carolly Erickson traces the visionary imagery that formed the inter-woven natural and spiritual landscapes of the middle ages, drawing on chronicles, biographies, and historical and theological writings. Writing primarily of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries, the author explores religious belief, the clergy, land and property, heresy, women, lawlessness, kingship and the everpresent super-natural world, relying on contemporary accounts chosen to reveal the shared perception of the educated and illiterate. Throughout the collection the visionary imagination becomes a touchstone for discovering the gap between modern and medieval perception, a key that informs our understanding of medieval personalities, thought, and society and gives them fresh meaning. Condition: Good. Click on Photo to see actual item. Ships PRIORITY mail same or next day (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships in a BOX or RIGID mailer with padding. Ships from California. Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Cover: clean, bright, light rubbing to edges and corner tips.
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Item Length: 5.4in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 8in
Author: Carolly Erickson
Publication Name: Medieval Vision : Essays in History and Perception
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 1976
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
