Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul

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English | ISBN: 0801436613 | 2000 | 288 pages | PDF | 31 MB
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.
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