LEADER 04256nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910777331303321 005 20210610014850.0 010 $a0-8014-7467-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801474675 035 $a(CKB)1000000000002263 035 $a(OCoLC)70767624 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10001773 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278837 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11246045 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278837 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10260504 035 $a(PQKB)10403347 035 $a(DE-B1597)534580 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801474675 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse82967 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137910 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10001773 035 $a(OCoLC)1163878552 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137910 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000002263 100 $a20001025d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDreams, visions, and spiritual authority in Merovingian Gaul$b[electronic resource] /$fIsabel Moreira 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8014-3661-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-258) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$tPart 1. Visionary Access --$tPart 2. Visions and Authority in the Merovingian Community --$tPart 3. Dreams and Visions in Merovingian Hagiography --$tConclusion --$tAppendix A. Otherworld Visions and Apocalypses --$tAppendix B. The Earliest Vitae of Aldegund of Maubeuge --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aMerovingians$xReligion 606 $aDreams$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 606 $aDreams$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600 606 $aChurch history$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aChristian hagiography$xHistory 606 $aVisions$xHistory 607 $aGaul$xChurch history 615 0$aMerovingians$xReligion. 615 0$aDreams$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aDreams$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aChurch history 615 0$aChurch history 615 0$aChristian hagiography$xHistory. 615 0$aVisions$xHistory. 676 $a248.2/9 700 $aMoreira$b Isabel$0478577 712 02$aebrary, Inc. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777331303321 996 $aDreams, visions, and spiritual authority in Merovingian Gaul$93742763 997 $aUNINA