Vision of Tnugdal. Harmony, Paradise and Salvation in Medieval Beyond
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Medieval Church spread various narratives of imaginary journeys which describe the environment reserved to the elected souls in post-mortem in the space of Heaven. Vision of Tnugdal, example of those narratives, from anonymous authorship, produced in the 12 th century, was translated to Portuguese in the 15th century and give us the symbolic description of Heaven in Medieval Beyond. In this text, the knight Tnugdal, guided by an angel, runs through the various the paths of Celestial Kingdom, divided in the Walls of Silver, Gold and Precious Stones, where are placed the faire souls who possess Christian virtues. To earn and enjoy the things that those spaces offered, the Catholic Church spread ideal models of behavior, since its conception, for the faithful ones achieve eternal salvation in Celestial Paradise.
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Zierer, Adriana; and Pereira Oliveira, Solange. “Vision of Tnugdal. Harmony, Paradise and Salvation in Medieval Beyond”. Mirabilia: electronic journal of antiquity and middle ages, no. 16, pp. 221-47, https://raco.cat/index.php/Mirabilia/article/view/275889.
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