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The Medieval Church · c. 1152–1164
The Visions
Elisabeth of Schönau · c. 1129–1164
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What it is
Visions received in ecstasy and dictated to her brother, including revelations about the company of Saint Ursula that helped authenticate a vast relic discovery at Cologne.
Why it lasted
Widely copied alongside Hildegard's work, and a case study in how a visionary woman's authority was mediated by the male relative who wrote her down.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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