Ecstasy in the Classroom: Trance, Self, and the Academic Profession in Medieval Paris

Ecstasy in the Classroom analyzes the early thirteenth century theological discourse about Paul's rapture and other modes of cognizing God. It reconstructs the perceptions of transformation and self they imply, and demonstrate their role in establishing the peculiar professional identity of scholastic theologians compared with other seers of God.

Author: Ayelet Even-Ezra
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 12/04/2018
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780823281916

About the Author
Ayelet Even-Ezra is Assistant Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She studies Europe's medieval scholastic culture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.