medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From 'saints of the day' for 16. January 2009:
'3) Fursey (d. 649). The Irishman F. (also Fursa, Fursy; in Latin, Furseus) was a monastic founder in his homeland, in England, and in France. According to his later seventh-century Vita (different versions: BHL 3209, 3210; known to St. Bede in some form), he experienced two visions while still in Ireland at his first foundation; in the second of these he had an out-of-body experience in which angels took him to a place where he saw souls of the damned undergoing punition.'
Best,
John Dillon
On Monday, December 7, 2009, at 3:46 pm, John Shinners wrote:
> An MA student asked me if I knew of any specific texts, collections of
> texts, or secondary sources that recount medieval out-of-body
> experiences or journeys of the soul (but not just dreams and visions).
> He knows of the story of the English peasant Thurkill's trip to hell
> and the brief story in the _Golden Legend_ of the woman led in spirit
> to Jerusalem by Mary Magdalene. I can think of a few brief anecdotes
> here and there--e.g., a young girl taken to heaven and hell by St.
> Catherine mentioned in the miracles of Thomas Becket--and there may be
> some others in Gardiner's _Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante_.
>
>
> Can anyone think of other sources or studies?
>
> Thanks,
> John
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