Dreams, visions, and spiritual authority in Merovingian Gaul

Description:

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Christian hagiography,  Christianity,  Church history,  Dreams,  History,  History of doctrines,  Merovingians,  Religion,  Religious aspects of Dreams,  Visions,  Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600,  Church history, middle ages, 600-1500,  Gaul,  Religious aspects

Places: Gaul

Times: Early church, ca. 30-600,  Middle Ages, 600-1500,  Middles Ages, 600-1500,  Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600,  To 1500