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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Jan Swango Emerson; Hugh Feiss |
ISBN: | 0815331215 9780815331216 |
OCLC Number: | 42726201 |
Notes: | Mostly papers presented at a seminar entitled "Late Antiquity and medieval conceptions of heaven" held at the University of California-Santa Barbara during the Summer of 1993. |
Description: | xxii, 364 pages : illustrations, facsimile ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Harmony, hierarchy, and the senses in the Vision of Tundal / Jan Swango Emerson -- The sexual body in Dante's celestial paradise / F. Regina Psaki -- John of Fécamp's longing for heaven / High Feiss -- The discourse of heaven in Mechtild of Hackeborn's Booke of gostlye grace -- Heaven in Bernard of Cluny's De contemptu mundi / Ronald E. Pepin -- Hadewijch of Antwerp's dark visions of heaven / Mary Suydam -- Heaven in the theology of Hugh, Achard, and Richard of St. Victor / Hugh Feiss -- Thomas Aquinas on beatitude / Lawrence F. Hundersmarck -- Heavenly visions, earthly realities : an attempt to replicate the heavenly city through municipal legislation / Robert Anthony Laures -- Pyramus at the mulberry tree : de-petrifying Dante's tinted mind / Christian Moevs -- Impassioned failure : memory, metaphor, and the drive toward intellection / Daniel P. Terkla -- Afterword / Jeffrey Burton Russell. |
Series Title: | Garland reference library of the humanities, vol. 2096.; Garland reference library of the humanities., Garland medieval casebooks ;, vol. 27. |
Responsibility: | edited by Jan Swango Emerson and Hugh Feiss ; afterword by Jeffrey Burton Russell. |
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