La vision de la Jérusalem Céleste : parcours humain et règle de vie dans Pearl et The Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode
The Vision of the Celestial Jerusalem: Christian Life as a Spiritual Pilgrimage

Summary/Abstract: Drawing on two late medieval texts, Pearl and The Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode, this paper explores the spiritual pilgrimage, i.e. human life as a pilgrimage, leaving aside the famous pilgrimages that sent medieval pilgrims on the roads. The literary analysis of the two texts focuses on two dream-visions, as well as on their narrative and dramatic strategies, in order to understand how the readers or the audience could have access to complex theological issues through lively imagery and discourse meant to orient and rule their lives as Christians.

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