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Author Emerson, Jan S

Title Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages : a Book of Essays
Published London : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (387 pages)
Series Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2096.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; CORPOREALITY; Harmony, Hierarchy, and the Senses in the Vision of Tundal; The Sexual Body in Dante's Celestial Paradise; DESIRE AND FULFILLMENT; John of Fécamp's Longing for Heaven; The Discourse of Heaven in Mechtild of Hackeborn's Booke of Gostlye Grace; Heaven in Bernard of Cluny's De contemptu mundi; Hadewijch of Antwerp's Dark Visions of Heaven; TRANSCENDENCE; Heaven in the Theology of Hugh, Achard, and Richard of St. Victor; Thomas Aquinas on Beatitude
Heavenly Visions-Earthly Realities: An Attempt to Replicate the Heavenly City through Municipal LegislationPyramus at the Mulberry Tree: De-petrifying Dante's Tinted Mind; Impassioned Failure: Memory, Metaphor, and the Drive toward Intellection; AFTERWORD; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Summary First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Heaven -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Eschatology.
Form Electronic book
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