The Visio Baronti in its early medieval context
<p>The focus of this thesis is the Visio Baronti (VB), an account of a seventh-century monk's journey to the other world. This text serves as a metaphoric fulcrum to support a more extensive study of early medieval conceptions of the other world and the historical context in which visiona...
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| author | Lucey-Roper, M |
| author2 | Mayr-Harting, H |
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| description | <p>The focus of this thesis is the Visio Baronti (VB), an account of a seventh-century monk's journey to the other world. This text serves as a metaphoric fulcrum to support a more extensive study of early medieval conceptions of the other world and the historical context in which visionary accounts were produced. Chapter 1 contains an introduction to ideas of the other world, a survey of types of visionary experiences, their uses, imitations and historiographical responses to them. Chapter 2 focuses on medieval and modern responses to visions. This chapter includes a survey of the terminology for dreams and visions found in theoretical writings, compares dream theory with otherworld visions and identifies medieval methods of determining the validity of a visionary experience. Chapter 3 investigates the manuscript tradition of the VB, in order to illuminate medieval receptions and treatments of this text. Because the text appears unusual for the seventh century, chapter 4 provides an analysis of the grounds for dating the VB to the seventh century, while chapter 5 treats the VB in its seventh-century monastic context and assesses what influences shaped this text. Chapter 6 compares Barontus's vision with ninth-century visions and other Carolingian writings to consider Carolingian interest in the VB in light of their contributions to the genre. Chapter 7 examines the artistic response to this text through an examination of the illustrations which accompany the text in the ninth-century St Petersburg manuscript. A brief conclusion to this study follows.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:955edffb-dab7-4cb7-8810-6e719b02231f2022-03-26T23:45:40ZThe Visio Baronti in its early medieval contextThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:955edffb-dab7-4cb7-8810-6e719b02231fFuture life in literatureVisio BarontiVisions in literatureLiterature, Medieval -- History and criticismEnglishORA Deposit2000Lucey-Roper, MMayr-Harting, H<p>The focus of this thesis is the Visio Baronti (VB), an account of a seventh-century monk's journey to the other world. This text serves as a metaphoric fulcrum to support a more extensive study of early medieval conceptions of the other world and the historical context in which visionary accounts were produced. Chapter 1 contains an introduction to ideas of the other world, a survey of types of visionary experiences, their uses, imitations and historiographical responses to them. Chapter 2 focuses on medieval and modern responses to visions. This chapter includes a survey of the terminology for dreams and visions found in theoretical writings, compares dream theory with otherworld visions and identifies medieval methods of determining the validity of a visionary experience. Chapter 3 investigates the manuscript tradition of the VB, in order to illuminate medieval receptions and treatments of this text. Because the text appears unusual for the seventh century, chapter 4 provides an analysis of the grounds for dating the VB to the seventh century, while chapter 5 treats the VB in its seventh-century monastic context and assesses what influences shaped this text. Chapter 6 compares Barontus's vision with ninth-century visions and other Carolingian writings to consider Carolingian interest in the VB in light of their contributions to the genre. Chapter 7 examines the artistic response to this text through an examination of the illustrations which accompany the text in the ninth-century St Petersburg manuscript. A brief conclusion to this study follows.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Future life in literature Visio Baronti Visions in literature Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism Lucey-Roper, M The Visio Baronti in its early medieval context |
| title | The Visio Baronti in its early medieval context |
| title_full | The Visio Baronti in its early medieval context |
| title_fullStr | The Visio Baronti in its early medieval context |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Visio Baronti in its early medieval context |
| title_short | The Visio Baronti in its early medieval context |
| title_sort | visio baronti in its early medieval context |
| topic | Future life in literature Visio Baronti Visions in literature Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism |
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