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Medieval attempts to capture a glimpse of heaven range from the
ethereal to the mundane, utilizing media as diverse as maps,
cathedrals, songs, treatises, poems, visions and sewer systems.
Heaven was at once the goal of the individual Christian life and
the end of the cosmic plan. It was, simply stated, perfection. But
interpretations varied from the traditional to the dangerously
unique as artists and authors, theologians and visionaries
struggled to define that perfection. Depending on the source,
heaven's attributes vary from height to depth, darkness to light,
silence to symphony; the souls within it from activity to
passivity, experience to essence, participation to distant
admiration. Questions addressed in this anthology include: Are
erotic and spiritual love mutually exclusive? Does the soul's
happiness depend on the resurrection of the body? What will be the
nature of the transfigured body? Will it retain its gender? Will it
have senses? Will it know desire? How can desire and fulfillment
exist together? Can the human soul ever know God?
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Benedictine Reader, 530-1530, has been more than twenty years in the making. A collaboration of a dozen scholars, this project gives as broad and deep a sense of the reality of the first one thousand years of Benedictine monasticism as can be done in one volume, using primary sources in English translation. The texts included are drawn from many different genres and from several languages and areas of Europe. The introduction to each of the thirty-two chapters aims to situate each author and text and to make connections with other texts and studies within and outside the Reader. The general introduction summarizes the main ideas and practices that are present in the Rule of Saint Benedict and in the first thousand years of Benedictine monasticism while suggesting questions that a reader might bring to the texts.
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