UID:
almahu_9948639641902882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 352 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781316823255 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 114
Content:
Where do we go after we die? This book traces how the European Middle Ages offered distinctive answers to this universal question, evolving from Antiquity through to the sixteenth century, to reflect a variety of problems and developments. Focussing on texts describing visions of the afterlife, alongside art and theology, this volume explores heaven, hell, and purgatory as they were imagined across Europe, as well as by noted authors including Gregory the Great and Dante. A cross-disciplinary team of contributors including historians, literary scholars, classicists, art historians and theologians offer not only a fascinating sketch of both medieval perceptions and the wide scholarship on this question: they also provide a much-needed new perspective. Where the twelfth century was once the 'high point' of the medieval afterlife, the essays here show that the afterlives of the early and later Middle Ages were far more important and imaginative than we once thought.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).
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Just deserts in the ancient pagan afterlife / Susanna Braund & Emma Hilliard -- Visions of the afterlife in the early medieval West / Yitzhak Hen -- A morbid efflorescence : envisaging the afterlife in the Carolingian period / Richard M. Pollard -- The afterlife in the medieval Celtic-speaking world / Elizabeth Boyle -- Anglo-Saxon visions of heaven and hell / Gernot Wieland -- Otherworld journeys of the central Middle ages / Carl Watkins -- Visions of the otherworlds in the late Middle ages, c. 1300-c. 1500 / Gwenfair Walters Adams -- Purgatory's intercessors / Isabel Moreira -- The theology of the afterlife in the early Middle ages, c. 600-c. 1100 / Helen Foxhall Forbes -- Afterdeath locations and return appearances, from Scripture to Shakespeare / Henry Ansgar Kelly -- 'Eye hath not seen [...] which things God hath prepared [...]': imagining ed [...]' heaven and hell in Romanesque and Gothic art / Adam R. Stead -- Visions and the afterlife in Gregory's dialogues / Jesse Keskiaho -- The vision of Tnugdal / Eileen Gardiner -- The afterlife in the visionary experiences of the female mystics / Debra L. Stoudt -- Dante's other worldly surprises and this worldly polemic / George Corbett.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107177918
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316823255
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