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Book Cover 1 Half-Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Plates 9 Contributors 10 Preface 12 Acknowledgements 13 Abbreviations 14 Part I: Introduction 16 1 Envisaging heaven: An introduction 18 Part II: The theology of heaven 28 2 Visio dei: Seeing God in medieval theology and mysticism 30 3 Constructing heaven in Hildegard: of Bingen’s Expositiones euangeliorum 49 4 The completeness of heaven 59 5 Heaven, earth and the angels: Preaching paradise in the sermons of Jacques de Vitry 72 Part III: Mystical and visionary traditions 88 6 Access to heaven in medieval visions of the otherworld 90 7 Bringing heaven down to earth: Beguine constructions of heaven 106 8 Von Aller Bilden Bildlosekeit:The trouble with images of heaven in the works of Henry Suso 123 9 Marguerite Porete: Courtliness and transcendence in The Mirror of Simple Souls 135 Part IV: The art of heaven 152 10 ‘Some high place’:Actualizing heaven in the Middle Ages 154 11 Heaven as performance and participation in the Symphonia Hildegard of Bingen 170 12 Afterlives now: A study of Paradiso canto 28 181 13 The artifice of eternity: Speaking of heaven in three medieval poems 200 Part V: Vernacular appropriations 222 14 Exchan

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Author

Carolyn Muessig and Ad Putter (Edt.)

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2007

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction