Willing to know God
Subtitle: dreamers and visionaries in the later Middle Ages
By: Jessica Barr.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780814211274; 9780814292266
Subjects: Marguerite, -- d'Oin, -- ca. 1240-1310 -- Criticism and interpretation; Gertrude, -- the Great, Saint, -- 1256-1302 -- Criticism and interpretation; Julian, -- of Norwich, -- b. 1343 -- Criticism and interpretation; Langland, William, -- 1330?-1400? -- Criticism and interpretation; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400. -- Criticism and interpretation; Kempe, Margery, -- b. ca. 1373; Pearl (Middle English poem) -- Criticism, Textual; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Visions in literature; Dreams in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Knowledge and vision in the Middle Ages; title: Marguerite d'Oingt : active reading and the language of God; title: The will to know : volition and intellect in Gertrude of Helfta; title: The vision is not enough : active knowing in Julian of Norwich; title: Worldly attachment and visionary resistance in Pearl; title: The critique of revelation in Piers Plowman; title: Discrediting the vision : the House of Fame; title: Knowledge is power : negotiating authority in The book of Margery Kempe.