Dreams, visions, and spiritual authority in Merovingian Gaul
By: Isabel Moreira.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Merovingians -- Religion.; Dreams -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Dreams -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middles Ages, 600-1500.; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.; Christian hagiography -- History -- To 1500.; Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Visions -- History -- To 1500.; Gaul -- Church history.
Description: "In early medieval Europe, dreams and visions were believed to reveal divine information about Christian life and the hereafter. No consensus existed, however, as to whether all Christians, or only a spiritual elite, were entitled to have a relationship of this sort with the supernatural.

Drawing on a rich variety of sources - histories, hagiographies, ascetic literature, and records of dreams at saints' shrines - Isabel Moreira provides insight into a society struggling to understand and negotiate its religious visions."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-258) and index.