About the book: 2024 / The outstanding medieval philologist, poet, theorist and literary historian Boris Isaakovich Yarho (1889–1942) began work on this book in the summer of 1918 - during a period when the very atmosphere of post-war Europe was imbued with eschatological sentiments. The context of such a large-scale catastrophe made it relevant to turn to the genre of visions, the purpose of which, according to the author, is “to reveal to the reader truths that are inaccessible to direct human knowledge.” An anthology of medieval Latin visions, translated and commented by B. Yarho, helped introduce the definition of this genre into scientific circulation, identify its boundaries, chronology and main content. The book ends with an index of images and motifs compiled by the author, which also includes numerous examples of the vision genre that were not included in the anthology. In total, the visions collected by B. Yarkho not only help to reconstruct the picture of the world of medieval man, but also give an idea of ​​the possibilities of the genre, which in its development led European literature to Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” and Langland’s “The Vision of Peter the Plowman”.