Willing to know God : dreamers and visionaries in the later Middle Ages / Jessica Barr.

• 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.

Ämnesord

Medeltiden  (sao)

Visions in literature.  (LCSH)

Dreams in literature.  (LCSH)

Literature, Medieval  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Visioner i litteraturen  -- historia (sao)

Drömmar i litteraturen  -- historia (sao)

Mystiker  -- historia (sao)

Middle Ages  (LCSH)

Europe--History--476-1492  (LCSH)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Personnamn

Marguerite, d'Oin, ca 1240-1310

Gertrud av Helfta, helgon, ca 1256-1302

Julian av Norwich, ca 1342-ca 1416

Namn/titel

Kempe, Margery, b. ca. 1373.: Book of Margery Kempe. 

Langland, William, 1330?-1400?: Piers Plowman  -- Criticism and interpretation.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.: House of fame  -- Criticism and interpretation.

Titel

Pearl (Middle English poem) -- Criticism, Textual.

Klassifikation

PN682.V57 (LCC)

809/.93382 (DDC)