Envisaging Heaven In The Middle Ages (Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Plates......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Abbreviations......Page 14
Part I: Introduction......Page 16
1 Envisaging heaven: An introduction......Page 18
Part II: The theology of heaven......Page 28
2 Visio dei: Seeing God in medieval theology and mysticism......Page 30
3 Constructing heaven in Hildegard: of Bingen’s Expositiones euangeliorum......Page 49
4 The completeness of heaven......Page 59
5 Heaven, earth and the angels: Preaching paradise in the sermons of Jacques de Vitry......Page 72
Part III: Mystical and visionary traditions......Page 88
6 Access to heaven in medieval visions of the otherworld......Page 90
7 Bringing heaven down to earth: Beguine constructions of heaven......Page 106
8 Von Aller Bilden Bildlosekeit:The trouble with images of heaven in the works of Henry Suso......Page 123
9 Marguerite Porete: Courtliness and transcendence in The Mirror of Simple Souls......Page 135
Part IV: The art of heaven......Page 152
10 ‘Some high place’:Actualizing heaven in the Middle Ages......Page 154
11 Heaven as performance and participation in the Symphonia Hildegard of Bingen......Page 170
12 Afterlives now: A study of Paradiso canto 28......Page 181
13 The artifice of eternity: Speaking of heaven in three medieval poems......Page 200
Part V: Vernacular appropriations......Page 222
14 Exchanging blood for wine: Envisaging heaven in Irish bardic poetry......Page 224
15 Chaucer’s lovers in metaphorical heaven......Page 237
16 The influence of visions of the otherworld on some medieval romances......Page 252
Index......Page 267