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Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul (Hardcover)
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Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul (Hardcover)
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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. Moreira 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.
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