Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-246) and index
Transactions of satisfaction and visions of the otherworld -- - Reciprocated devotion and visitations of the saints -- - Spiritual warfare in demonic encounters -- - Seeing through the surface : vision as supra-sacramental sight -- - Visions, power, and the dynamic of mediated revelation -- - Appendix A : Vision : range of uses of term in late medieval England -- - Appendix B : Byland Abbey ghost stories as contemporary accounts -- - Appendix C : Additional visions and vision types
Visions were highly popular in the late Middle Ages, whether preached as vivid stories from the pulpit, illuminated in saint-filled manuscripts, or experienced during the breathless anticipation of a Mass or eerie darkness of a Yorkshire graveyard. This book explores five central dynamics of spirituality that the visions shaped and sustained
