Medieval & Renaissance Texts

By: Eileen Gardiner (Editor), Venerable Bede, Gregory the Great

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Hardcover | 22 March 2009

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318 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 2.24

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This essential and widely used collection of visions of heaven and hell, the first in English, presents new translations of two visions and newly edited versions of previously translated ones. Describes the place of these works in medieval literature and provides a helpful resource for studying elements of medieval religion.

Includes: St. Peter's Apocalypse, St. Paul's Apocalypse, St. Brendan's Voyage, St. Patrick's Purgatory, and the Visions of Furseus, Drythelm, Wetti, Charles the Fat, Tundale, the Monk of Evesham, and Thurkill.

Bibliography, index, glossary, notes, illustrated.

Industry Reviews

...An excellent anthology of translations of many of the key vision texts from the second to the early thirteenth century....(Medium Aevum)

...An important map of the medieval imagination. (A Common Reader)

Obviously a work of painstaking scholarship but it is also written in such a way that it can be read and enjoyed.... (The Tablet)

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