This is the first book-length study of Peter of Cornwall, prior of
Holy Trinity, Aldgate, London. His Liber Reuelationum (Lambeth
Palace Library, MS 51), dated to the year 1200, is a compilation of
over 1,100 chapters, excerpted from some 275 Latin texts, dealing
with visions of the otherworld and revelatory appearances of God,
Christ, Mary, angels, saints, devils, and revenants. Peter
collected the material from saints' lives, chronicles, and
free-standing vision texts from the first century AD through to his
own day - for the purpose of providing evidence of the existence of
God, the soul, and life after death to unbelievers. Accounts of new
visionary experiences circulating in England in the 1190s
doubtlessly prompted his collection. Like his other large-scale
work, Pantheologus, Peter of Cornwall's Book of Revelations was
intended to assist preachers with propagating the fundamentals of
the faith. This volume introduces Peter's life and writings and
presents editions with parallel English translations of those parts
of the Lambeth manuscript that Peter composed himself. A detailed
description of the manuscript is included, and a Calendar
identifies the source for each of Peter's chapters. A bibliography
and indices complete this volume, which provides a marvellous
resource for scholars interested in the Latin literature of
medieval dreams, visionary experience, and the eschatological
concerns of sin, penance, death, the afterlife, and the judgement
of the soul.
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