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Author Adams, Gwenfair Walters.

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

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xxiii, 273 p.
Series Studies in the history of Christian traditions, 1573-5664 ; v. 130
Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 130.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-246) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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 -- 1066-1485.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9004156062 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004156067 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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