Willing to know God: dreamers and visionaries in the later Middle Ages

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Subjects (LCSH):
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticismVisions in literature
Dreams in literature
Marguerite, d'Oin, ca. 1240-1310 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Gertrude, the Great Saint, 1256-1302 -- Criticism and interpretation
Julian, of Norwich, b. 1343 -- Criticism and interpretation
Pearl (Middle English poem) -- Criticism, Textual
Langland, William, 1330?-1400?. Piers Plowman -- Criticism and interpretation
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. House of fame -- Criticism and interpretation
Kempe, Margery, b. ca. 1373. Book of Margery Kempe
Issue Date:
2010Metadata
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The Ohio State University PressDescription:
(print) x, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
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
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Item embargoed for five years
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BookISBN:
9780814211274 (print)0814211275 (print)
Other Identifiers:
OCLC #499178019 (print)LCCN 2010000392 (print)
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