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University of Paris, especially its contacts with the faculty of arts in which they previously studied or the faculty of medicine that shared an interest in the subject of the book, the author has concentrated on their collective contribution to defining modes of cognition or apprehension of God, the taxonomy of visions and out-of-body experiences, the physiology of memory, and the salvific value of theological knowledge in comparison to simple faith. This reviewer would have preferred footnotes to endnotes, especially in a work written for a scholarly rather than a popular audience, but such decisions are often made by the publisher rather than the author. The relevant secondary literature in the bibliography is very thorough. This work is an important contribution to recent research on the University of Paris in its early decades, especially Nathalie Gorochov’s Naissance de l’Université. Les écoles de Paris d’Innocent III à Thomas d’Aquin (v. 1200–v. 1245) (Champion, 2012) and Spencer Young’s Scholarly Community at the Early University of Paris. Theologians, Education and Society, 1215–1248 (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Ecstacy in the Classroom will appeal to a wide audience, including those working on scholastic philosophy and theology, those interested in rapture, visions, and mystical experience, and those concerned with the intellectual history of the University of Paris in the first half of the thirteenth century.