Title: Dreams, visions, and spiritual authority in Merovingian Gaul
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.
Subjects: Christian hagiography, Christianity, Church history, Dreams, History, History of doctrines, Merovingians, Religion, Religious aspects of Dreams, Visions, Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Church history, middle ages, 600-1500, Gaul, Religious aspects
Places: Gaul
Time periods: Early church, ca. 30-600, Middle Ages, 600-1500, Middles Ages, 600-1500, Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, To 1500