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The revelations of St Birgitta : a study and edition of the Birgittine-Norwegian texts, Swedish National Archives, E 8902
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ISBN: 9004304665 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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In The Revelations of St Birgitta: A Study and Edition of the Birgittine-Norwegian Texts, Swedish National Archives, E 8902 , Jonathan Adams offers a detailed analysis of the manuscript and its contents as well as a new edition of this puzzling text. The Birgittine-Norwegian texts are very distinctive from the main Birgittine vernacular corpus of literature and have taxed scholars for decades as to why and for whom they were written. The linguistic study of the manuscript is combined with contextual and historical information in order to reinforce the arguments made and offer explanations within a cultural context. This provides a welcome new dimension to earlier research that has otherwise been pursued to a large degree within a single academic discipline.


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Zechariah's vision report and and its earliest interpreters : a redaction-critical study of Zechariah 1-8
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ISBN: 9780567665225 0567665224 9780567665232 9780567668837 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

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Peoples of the apocalypse : eschatological beliefs and political scenarios
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ISBN: 3110472635 3110473313 3110469499 9783110473315 9783110473322 3110473321 9783110472639 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter

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This volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and antagonists for each religious society. Extensive lists of murderous end-time peoples, whether for good or evil, and those who merit salvation hold variably defined roles in end-time scenarios. Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, the collected papers examine distinctive aspects represented by each religion’s approach as well as shared concepts.


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La vision incarnante et l'image incarnée : Santi di Tito et Caravage
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ISBN: 9782953859386 2953859381 Year: 2016 Volume: 6 Publisher: [Paris]: éditions 1:1,

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La 4e de couverture indique : "Dans l'histoire longue de la représentation et de la vision en Occident, deux modalités principales de rapport entre le spectateur et la fiction iconique ont pu coexister : le mouvement du spectateur vers et dans l'image, et le mouvement de l'image vers le spectateur. À l'absorption dans le champ visuel, assimilée à une forme de plongée dans la fiction, répond celui de la projection de la fiction au devant du plan de la représentation. [...] Deux tableaux en particulier, réalisés à la charnière du XVIe et du XVIIe siècles, ont retenu notre attention : La vision de saint Thomas d'Aquin (1593) de Santi di Tito et la Madone des Pèlerins (1604-1605) du Caravage. Ils ont pour point commun d'offrir une réflexion plastique sur l'expérience visionnaire et la transgression des seuils entre représentation et présence."


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The art of dreams : reflections and representations
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ISBN: 3110433532 3110433850 9783110433852 9783110433531 9783110437515 3110437511 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter,

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We all dream; we all share these strange experiences that infuse our nights. But we only know of those nightly adventures when we decide to represent them. In the long history of coming to terms with dreams there seem to be two different ways of delineating our forays into the world of the unconscious: One is the attempt of interpreting, of unveiling the hidden meaning of dreams. The other one is not so much concerned with the relation of dream and meaning, of dream and reality, it rather concentrates on trying to find means of representation for this extremely productive force that determines our sleep. The essays collected in this book explore both attempts. They follow debates in philosophy and psychoanalysis and they study literature, theatre, dance, film, and photography.


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Exprimer la vision spirituelle (XIVe-XVIIe siècles)
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ISBN: 9789042932265 9042932260 Year: 2016 Volume: 4 Publisher: Louvain: Peeters,

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Entre rêves et manifestations surnaturelles, comment et pourquoi dire l'irruption du sacré dans le quotidien, a la croisée du Moyen Âge et de la première modernité? Comment et pourquoi exprimer la vision du divin à une époque marquée par un remarquable renouveau tant spirituel que mystique, de la 'devotio moderna' au quiétisme, mais travaillée également par l'essor des sciences optiques, les progrès du scepticisme ou le renouvellement des sciences médicales s'agissant des pathologies de l'esprit? Le présent volume réunit en ce sens des contributions d'historiens de la littérature et de l'art qui explorent les multiples expressions littéraires et picturales de la vision - entendue comme perception sensible d'une manifestation du divin - entre le XIVe et le XVIIe siècle.


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Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination
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ISBN: 3319407244 3319407236 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book explores the intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination, in light of the findings of recent neurocognitive and empirical research, with the aim to lay a groundwork for an empirically informed aesthetic of dreaming. Drawing on perspectives from literary theory, philosophy of mind and dream research, this study investigates dreaming in relation to creativity and waking states of imagination such as writing and reading stories. Exploring the similarities and differences between the 'language' of dreams and the language of literature, it analyses the strategies employed by writers to create a sense of dream in literary fiction as well as the genres most conducive to this endeavour. The book closes with three case studies focusing on texts by Kazuo Ishiguro, Clare Boylan and John Banville to illustrate the diverse ways in which writers succeed in 'translating' the experience and 'language' of the dream. .


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The materiality of devotion in late medieval Northern Europe : images, objects, practices
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ISBN: 9781846825033 1846825032 Year: 2016 Volume: 3 Publisher: Dublin: Four Courts Press,

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This beautifully illustrated volume explores aspects of the devotional world of late medieval northern Europe, with a special emphasis on how people interacted with texts, images, artefacts and other instruments of piety at the level of the senses. It focuses on the materiality of medieval religion and the manner in which Christians were encouraged to engage their senses in their devotional practices: gazing, hearing, touching, tasting and committing to memory. In so doing, it brings together the ideals of medievavl mystical writing and the increasingly tangible and material practice of piety, which would become characteristic of the period. This is the third volume of the European Network on the Instruments of Devotion (ENID) series. -- from back cover


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'A Truly Golden Handbook' : The Scholarly Quest for Utopia
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ISBN: 9461662343 9789461662347 9789462700796 9462700796 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press,

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What would the ideal society of the future look like? In 1516, the eminent English humanist Thomas More tried his hand at imagining a perfect society on a distant island. His Utopia was published in the Flemish town of Leuven, home of a university that was established almost a century earlier. 500 years later, scholars of this university revisit More's best-known work and reflect on the ideal society of the future, using the scientific insights of today, including perspectives which More could never have imagined. What will our cities look like a hundred years from now? How will stem cell research and 3D printing change the world? Will we be able to cure all diseases? Will we be traveling to other planets? Will computers take over? Or will humanity find a way to improve the quality of life for everyone and feed a growing world population? In 'A Truly Golden Handbook', more than fifty KU Leuven scholars share their science-based utopian dreams. From the creation of spare organs, artificial intelligence and the genetic future, to global governance, ecological sustainability and pathways to more equality, this visionary book offers a broad interdisciplinary look at the world of tomorrow.

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