Visions and voice-hearing in medieval and early modern contexts / Hilary Powell, Corinne Saunders, editors.
Powell, Hilary, 1979- editor.; Saunders, Corinne J., 1963- editor.
2021
PR255 .V57 2021eb
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Title
Visions and voice-hearing in medieval and early modern contexts / Hilary Powell, Corinne Saunders, editors.
ISBN
3030526593 (electronic bk.)
9783030526597 (electronic bk.)
9783030526580 (hbk.)
3030526585 (hbk.)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52659-7
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 311 pages) : color illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-52659-7 doi
Call Number
PR255 .V57 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.93382
Summary
"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 response to the cultural shifts of the early modern period. These essays, which consider the period 1100 to 1700, offer diverse new insights into a complex, controversial and contested category of human experience, exploring literary and spiritual works as illuminated by scientific and medical writings, natural philosophy and theology, and the visual arts. In extending and challenging contemporary bio-medical perspectives through the insights and methodologies of the arts and humanities, the volume offers a timely intervention within the wider project of the medical humanities. Chapters 2 and 5 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com."-- ProQuest Ebook Central resource page, viewed April 22, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 22, 2021).
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Powell, Hilary, 1979- editor.
Saunders, Corinne J., 1963- editor.
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Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
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