Experiencing God in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern England

The sensorial ravishment of a moment of Divine revelation lies at the heart of this fascinating piece of scholarship by David J. Davis, and is approached from a number of perspectives, all of which are, though, solidly rooted in the religious discourses of late-medieval and early-modern England. Opposing the philosophical/secular lexica to the religious discourses, both in the seventeenth century and today, Davis in fact refers to the "important blind spots within contemporary western thought" (p. 194), and to the "intellectual arrogance that is common in every age" (p. 194).