1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450157603321

Autore

Moreira Isabel

Titolo

Dreams, visions, and spiritual authority in Merovingian Gaul [[electronic resource] /] / Isabel Moreira

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2000

ISBN

0-8014-7467-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

248.2/9

Soggetti

Merovingians - Religion

Dreams - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600

Dreams - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Christian hagiography - History

Visions - History

Electronic books.

Gaul Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1. Visionary Access -- Part 2. Visions and Authority in the Merovingian Community -- Part 3. Dreams and Visions in Merovingian Hagiography -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Otherworld Visions and Apocalypses -- Appendix B. The Earliest Vitae of Aldegund of Maubeuge -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In early medieval Europe, dreams and visions were believed to reveal divine information about Christian life and the hereafter. No consensus existed, however, as to whether all Christians, or only a spiritual elite, were entitled to have a relationship of this sort with the supernatural. Drawing on a rich variety of sources—histories, hagiographies, ascetic literature, and records of dreams at saints' shrines—Isabel Moreira provides insight into a society struggling to understand and negotiate



its religious visions.More ira analyzes changing attitudes toward dreams and visionary experiences beginning in late antiquity, when the church hierarchy considered lay dreamers a threat to its claims of spiritual authority. Moreira describes how, over the course of the Merovingian period, the clergy came to accept the visions of ordinary folk—peasants, women, and children—as authentic. Dream literature and accounts of visionary experiences infiltrated all aspects of medieval culture by the eighth century, and the dreams of ordinary Christians became central to the clergy's pastoral concerns. Written in clear and inviting prose, this book enables readers to understand how the clerics of Merovingian Gaul allowed a Christian culture of dreaming to develop and flourish without compromising the religious orthodoxy of the community or the primacy of their own authority.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154968603321

Autore

Drummond Ian M

Titolo

Negotiating freer trade : the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and the trade agreements of 1938 / / Ian M. Drummond, Norman Hillmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1989

ISBN

9780889208230

0889208239

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HillmerNorman

Disciplina

382.091724

Soggetti

Free trade - Great Britain

Free trade - Canada

Free trade - United States

Great Britain Commercial treaties

Canada Commercial treaties

United States Commercial treaties

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Illustrations; Preface; 1. An Unpromising Environment; 2.



Talks About Talks; 3. Mackenzie King and the British; 4. Canadian Complications; 5. From ""Contemplation"" to ""Negotiation""; 6. Discussions to Some Purpose; 7. The Dominions in the Later Stages of the Negotiations; 8. The End at Last; 9. Conclusion: The Trials of Trilateralism; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

On November 17, 1938, Great Britain, the United States, and Canada, after four years of discussion and manoeuvre, signed two wide-ranging and interlocking trade agreements. A few large elements dominated the talks. The Americans wanted to breach the walls of the British imperial preferential tariff system. The British were anxious to retain markets and political support in the British dominions and the Baltic, while protecting their domestic agriculture and improving political relations with the United States. Canada, whose acquiescence and co-operation were necessitated by the pre-existin