Willing to Know God: Dreamers and Visionaries in the Later Middle Ages

by Jessica Barr

Although authors of mystical treatises and dream visions shared a core set of assumptions about how visions are able to impart transcendent truths to their recipients, the modern divide between "religious" and "secular" has led scholars to study these genres in isolation. Willing to Know God addresses the simultaneous flowering of mystical and literary vision texts in the Middle Ages by questioning how the vision was thought to work. What...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814211275
• ISBN13: 9780814211274
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"