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Willing to know God : dreamers and visionaries in the later Middle Ages
- Title
- Willing to know God : dreamers and visionaries in the later Middle Ages / Jessica Barr.
- Author
- Barr, Jessica (Jessica Gail), 1976-
- Publication
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- x, 262 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Langland, William, 1330?-1400? > Piers Plowman > Criticism and interpretation
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > House of fame > Criticism and interpretation
- Gertrude, the Great, Saint, 1256-1302 > Criticism and interpretation
- Dreams in literature
- Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
- Julian, of Norwich, 1343- > Criticism and interpretation
- Visions in literature
- Kempe, Margery, approximately 1373- > Book of Margery Kempe
- Marguerite, d'Oin, approximately 1240-1310 > Criticism and interpretation
- Pearl (Middle English poem) > Criticism, Textual
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Knowledge and vision in the Middle Ages -- Marguerite d'Oingt : active reading and the language of God -- The will to know : volition and intellect in Gertrude of Helfta -- The vision is not enough : active knowing in Julian of Norwich -- Worldly attachment and visionary resistance in Pearl -- The critique of revelation in Piers Plowman -- Discrediting the vision : the House of fame -- Knowledge is power : negotiating authority in The book of Margery Kempe.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-6712
- ISBN
- 9780814211274 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814211275 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780814292266 (cd-rom)
- 0814292267 (cd-rom)
- LCCN
- 2010000392
- OCLC
- YBP 2010000392
- Author
- Barr, Jessica (Jessica Gail), 1976-
- Title
- Willing to know God : dreamers and visionaries in the later Middle Ages / Jessica Barr.
- Imprint
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-6712