LEADER 03778nam 2200721 450 001 9910825038503321 005 20231206223939.0 010 $a1-315-57806-9 010 $a1-317-14815-0 010 $a1-317-14814-2 010 $a1-4724-3305-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000113973 035 $a(EBL)1589619 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001193898 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12395713 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001193898 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11150147 035 $a(PQKB)11267541 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1589619 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10872464 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL922510 035 $a(OCoLC)880147791 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1589619 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5293910 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000113973 100 $a20140529h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDreaming in Byzantium and beyond /$fChristine Angelidi and George T. Calofonos 210 1$aSurrey, England ;$aBurlington, Vermont :$cAshgate,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4094-0055-7 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a8 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 330 $aThis 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 606 $aDream interpretation$zByzantine Empire 606 $aDreams$zByzantine Empire 606 $aByzantine literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChristian literature, Byzantine$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDreams in literature 606 $aChristian hagiography 607 $aByzantine Empire$xHistoriography$xPsychological aspects 615 0$aDream interpretation 615 0$aDreams 615 0$aByzantine literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChristian literature, Byzantine$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDreams in literature. 615 0$aChristian hagiography. 676 $a949.5/02072 700 $aAngelide?$b Christina$0498211 702 $aCalofonos$b George T. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825038503321 996 $aDreaming in Byzantium and beyond$93998225 997 $aUNINA