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Medieval Visions from the 6th to the 12th Century

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The eminent philologist-medievalist, poet, theorist and literary historian Boris Isaakovich Yarkho (1889-1942) began work on this book in the summer of 1918, at a time when the very atmosphere of post-war Europe was imbued with eschatological sentiments. The context of such a large-scale catastrophe made it relevant to turn to the genre of visions, the purpose of which, according to the author, is "to reveal to the reader truths that are inaccessible to direct human cognition". The anthology of medieval Latin visions translated and commented by B. Yarkho helped to introduce the definition of this genre into the scientific turnover, to designate its boundaries, chronology and main content. The book is completed by an index of images and motifs compiled by the author, which also includes numerous examples of the genre of visions that were not included in the anthology. In sum, the visions collected by B. Yarkho not only help to reconstruct the picture of the world of medieval man, but also give an idea of the possibilities of the genre, which in its development led European literature to Dante's Divine Comedy and Langland's Vision of Peter the Plowman.

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