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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS LIST OF PLATES PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART I Introduction 1 Envisaging heaven: an introduction Carolyn Muessig and Ad Putter PART II The theology of heaven 2 Visio dei: seeing God in medieval theology and mysticism Bernard McGinn 3 Constructing heaven in Hildegard of Bingen¿s Expositiones euangeliorum Beverly Kienzle 4 The completeness of heaven Peter Dronke 5 Heaven, earth and the angels: preaching paradise in the sermons of Jacques de Vitry Carolyn Muessig PART III Mystical and visionary traditions 6 Access to heaven in medieval visions of the otherworld Robert Easting 7 Bringing heaven down to earth: beguine constructions of heaven Mary Suydam 8 Von Aller Bilden Bildlosekeit: the trouble with images of heaven in the works of Henry Suso Steven Rozenski 9 Marguerite Porete: courtliness and transcendence in The Mirror of Simple Souls A.C. Spearing PART IV The art of heaven 10 ¿Some high place¿: actualizing heaven in the Middle Ages Peter Meredith 11 Heaven as performance and participation in the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum of Hildegard of Bingen Steven D¿Evelyn 12 After lives now: a study of Paradiso canto 28 Robin Kirkpatrick 13 The artifice of eternity: speaking of heaven in three medieval poems Barbara Newman PART V Vernacular appropriations 14 Exchanging blood for wine: envisaging heaven in Irish bardic poetry Salvador Ryan 15 Chaucer¿s lovers in metaphorical heaven Elizabeth Archibald 16 The influence of visions of the otherworld on some medieval romances Ad Putter Index
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Heaven -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Heaven.