TY - BOOK AU - Adams,Gwenfair Walters TI - Visions in late medieval England: lay spirituality and sacred glimpses of the hidden worlds of faith T2 - Brill eBook titles 2007 SN - 9789047419259 AV - BV5091.V6 A33 2007 U1 - 248.2/9 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Leken KW - gtt KW - Visioenen KW - Church history KW - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Visions KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Engeland KW - England KW - 1066-1485 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-246) and index; Preliminary Material; G.W. Adams --; Introduction; G.W. Adams --; Chapter One. Transactions Of Satisfaction And Visions Of The Otherworld; G.W. Adams --; Chapter Two. Reciprocated Devotion And Visitations Of The Saints; G.W. Adams --; Chapter Three. Spiritual Warfare In Demonic Encounters; G.W. Adams --; Chapter Four. Seeing Through The Surface: Vision As Supra-Sacramental Sight; G.W. Adams --; Chapter Five. Visions, Power, And The Dynamic Of Mediated Revelation; G.W. Adams --; Conclusion; G.W. Adams --; Appendices; G.W. Adams --; Bibliography; G.W. Adams --; Index; G.W. Adams; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - Visions were highly popular in the late Middle Ages, whether preached as vivid stories from the pulpit, illuminated in saint-filled manuscripts, or experienced during the breathless anticipation of a Mass or eerie darkness of a Yorkshire graveyard. This volume is the first to map out the wide range of vision types in late medieval English lay piety. Analyzing 1000 visionary accounts gathered from sermon and exempla collections, religious devotional works, saints’ legends, and lay stories, it explores five central dynamics of spirituality that visions shaped and sustained: Transactions of Satisfaction (visits to and from purgatory and hell), Reciprocated Devotion (visitations of the saints), Spiritual Warfare (attacks by demons), Supra-Sacramental Sight (Mass and Passion sightings), and Mediated Revelation (prophetic visions) UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004156067.i-278 ER -