Dreams, visions, and spiritual authority in Merovingian Gaul / Isabel Moreira.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Moreira, Isabel
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Subjects:	Merovingians > Religion. Dreams > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600. Dreams > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middles Ages, 600-1500. Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500. Christian hagiography > History. Visions > History. Gaul > Church history. Christian hagiography. Church history > Middle Ages. Church history > Primitive and early church. Visions. Europe > Gaul. Church history. History.

Table of Contents:

pt. I. Visionary Access. 1. Visionary Access in Christian Antiquity: The Making of Two Traditions. 2. Daniel's Heirs: Visionary Ascetics in Gaul
pt. 2. Visions and Authority in the Merovingian Community. 3. Gregory of Tours: A Visionary Bishop. 4. Dreams and Visions at the Shrines of the Saints. 5. Visionary Journeys to the Otherworld
pt. 3. Dreams and Visions in Merovingian Hagiography. 6. Visions and the Hagiographer in Merovingian Sources. 7. No Ordinary Visionary: St. Aldegund of Maubeuge
App. A. Otherworld Visions and Apocalypses
App. B. The Earliest Vitae of Aldegund of Maubeuge.

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