 | Ecstasy in the Classroom: Trance, Self, and the Academic Profession in Medieval Paris Subjects: Ecstasy -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages 600–1500; Paul the Apostle Saint; Visions in the Bible; Altered states of consciousness -- Religious aspects; Experience (Religion); 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. Even-Ezra Ayelet : 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. 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. |
