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Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages

The Reception and Use of Patristic Ideas, 400–900
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Dreams and visions played important roles in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages. But not only did tradition and authoritative texts teach that some dreams were divine: some also pointed out that this was not always the case. Exploring a broad range of narrative sources and manuscripts, Jesse Keskiaho investigates how the teachings of Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory the Great on dreams and visions were read and used in different contexts. Keskiaho argues that the early medieval processes of reception in a sense created patristic opinion about dreams and visions, resulting in a set of authoritative ideas that could be used both to defend and to question reports of individual visionary experiences. This book is a major contribution to discussions about the intellectual place of dreams and visions in the early Middle Ages, and underlines the creative nature of early medieval engagement with authoritative texts.

Author Biography:

Jesse Keskiaho completed his doctorate in General History in 2013 at the University of Helsinki. His research interests focus on the intellectual and religious history of the Latin West in the early Middle Ages, particularly manuscript culture. He spent the academic year 2014–15 as a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, pursuing a study of the early medieval annotations to Augustine's De Genesi ad litteram. Beyond his main area of study, he has collaborated in the study and digitisation of the medieval parchment fragments of the National Library in Helsinki, and co-ordinated the Codices Fennici project for the Finnish Literary Society, cataloguing and planning the digitisation of all medieval and sixteenth-century manuscripts copied or used in Finland. He has also participated in a project of the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, researching oracles and divination in the ancient world. He spent the academic year 2005–6 at the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae as the Wihuri postgraduate fellow. From 2006 to 2013 he served on the board of Glossa, the Society for Medieval Studies in Finland; from 2012 to 2013 as the president of the society. Since 2006 he has been the editor-in-chief of Mirator, a peer-reviewed online journal devoted to medieval studies.
Release date Australia
February 19th, 2015
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
340
Dimensions
152x229x21
ISBN-13
9781107082137
Product ID
22522710

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