Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts
This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted according to frameworks that could credit visionaries or voice-hearers with spiritual knowledge, and allow them to inhabit social roles that were as much desired as feared. Voice-hearing and visionary experience offered powerful creative possibilities in imaginative literature and were often central to the writing of inner, spiritual lives. Ideas about such experience were taken up and reshaped in res…
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Weitere Autoren: Powell, Hilary (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-030-52661-0
- EAN: 9783030526610
- Produktnummer: 38115113
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.7 cm 426 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 426
Über den Autor
Hilary Powell is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK, where she specialises in medieval monastic literary culture and the medical humanities. Her recent publications explore themes of voice-hearing, psychosis and mind-wandering from a medieval perspective.Corinne Saunders is Professor in the Department of English Studies and Co-Director of the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK, specialising in medieval literature and the history of ideas, in particular, the connections between mind, body and affect. Her books include Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance (2010).
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