1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452284103321

Autore

Hamill Lois <1957->

Titolo

Archives for the lay person [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to managing cultural collections / / Lois Hamill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland, : AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2013

ISBN

0-7591-1973-2

1-299-19588-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

American Association for State and Local History book series

Disciplina

025.3/414

Soggetti

Archives

Archives - Administration

Archival materials - Management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; APPENDIXES; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Collections management can be a daunting task for volunteers and employees alike. Archives for the Lay Person provides practical, step-by-step guidance for those managing all facets of archival collections at small organizations.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910825038503321

Autore

Angelidè„ Christina

Titolo

Dreaming in Byzantium and beyond / / Christine Angelidi and George T. Calofonos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-315-57806-9

1-317-14815-0

1-317-14814-2

1-4724-3305-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

949.5/02072

Soggetti

Dream interpretation - Byzantine Empire

Dreams - Byzantine Empire

Byzantine literature - History and criticism

Christian literature, Byzantine - History and criticism

Dreams in literature

Christian hagiography

Byzantine Empire Historiography Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Prologue; List of Contributors; Note on the Spelling of Names; Abbreviations; 1 Dreaming in the Life of Cyril Phileotes; 2 The Morphology of Healing Dreams: Dream and Therapy in Byzantine Collections of Miracle Stories; 3 Ecstasy as a Form of Visionary Experience in Early Byzantine Monastic Literature; 4 The Heavenly City: Religious and Secular Visions of the Other World in Byzantine Literature; 5 A Little Revelation for Personal Use; 6 Prokopios' Dream Before the Campaign Against Libya: A Reading of Wars 3.12.1-5; 7 Dream Narratives in the  Continuation of Theophanes

8 The Historiography of Dreaming in Medieval Byzantium9 The Dream-Key Manuals of Byzantium; 10 Byzantine and Islamic Dream Interpretation: A Comparative Approach to the Problem of 'Reality' vs



'Literary Tradition'; 11 Fluid Dreams, Solid Consciences: Erotic Dreams in Byzantium; 12 Gender Ambiguity in Dreams of Conversion, Prophecy and Creativity; 13 Psychoanalysis and Byzantine Oneirographia; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book - the first collection of studies on Byzantine dreams to be published - aims to demonstrate the importance of closely examining dreams in Byzantium in their wider historical and cultural, as well as narrative, context. The remarkable number of dream narratives in Byzantine hagiography, historiography, rhetoric, epistolography, and romance attests to the cardinal function of dreams as vehicles of meaning in politics, religion and literature. The essays provide a broad variety of perspectives, exploring gender, eroticism, Greco-Roman and Islamic influences, psychoanalysis and anthropol