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



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Autore: Angelidē Christina Visualizza persona
Titolo: Dreaming in Byzantium and beyond / / Christine Angelidi and George T. Calofonos Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina: 949.5/02072
Soggetto topico: Dream interpretation - Byzantine Empire
Dreams - Byzantine Empire
Byzantine literature - History and criticism
Christian literature, Byzantine - History and criticism
Dreams in literature
Christian hagiography
Soggetto geografico: Byzantine Empire Historiography Psychological aspects
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Persona (resp. second.): CalofonosGeorge T.
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
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ISBN: 1-317-14815-0
1-317-14814-2
1-4724-3305-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910464759803321
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