Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium.

• Superior document: Byzantina Australiensia ; Volume 24
• Author: Bronwen Neil; Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Editors)
• TeilnehmendeR: Neil, Bronwen,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Byzantina Australiensia 24.
• Classification: 73.43 - Familie. Verwandtschaft. Ehe; 08.00 - Philosophie: Allgemeines
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 pages)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Acknowledgements --; List of Illustrations --; Abbreviations --; Contributors --; An Introduction to Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium /; Dreams, Memory and Imagination in the Byzantine Philosophical Tradition --; The Dangers of Purity: Monastic Reactions to Erotic Dreams /; Locating Memory and Imagination: From Nemesius of Emesa to John of Damascus /; Daydreaming and Lusting after the Divine: Clement of Alexandria and the Platonic Tradition /; The Inner Source of Dreams: Synesius of Cyrene’s Reception in the Palaiologan Era /; Prophetic Dreams and Visions in Imperial Contexts --; Dynastic Dreams and Visions of Early Byzantine Emperors (ca. 518–565 AD) /; Dreaming of Treason: Portentous Dreams and Imperial Coups in Seventh-Century Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourse /; Desire, Dreams, and Visions in the Letters of Emperor Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos and Theodoros of Kyzikos /; The Dream Come True? Matthew of Edessa and the Return of the Roman Emperor /; Dreams and Memory in Byzantine Chronicles and Encomia --; Dreams and Imaginative Memory in Select Byzantine Chronicles /; Dream Portents in Early Byzantine and Early Islamic Chronicles /; Psellos’ Use and Counter-Use of Dreams, Visions and Prophecies in His Chronographia and His Encomium for His Mother /; Remembering the Saints in Hymns and Hagiography --; Loyalty and Betrayal: Villains, Imagination and Memory in the Reception of the Johannite Schism /; “As if in a Vision of the Night …”: Authorising the Healing Spring of Chonai /; Dreaming Liturgically: Andrew of Crete’s Great Kanon as a Mystical Vision /; Divine Fantasy and the Erotic Imagination in the Hymns of Symeon the New Theologian /; Back Matter --; General Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographic references and index.
• ISBN: 9004375716
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

This collection of studies on Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium covers four main themes: the place of dreams, imagination and memory in the Byzantine philosophical tradition; the political uses of prophetic dreams and visions in imperial contexts; the appearance and manipulation of dreams and memory in Byzantine poetry and histories, and changing commemorations of the saints over time in art, epigraphy and literature. These studies reveal the distinctive and important roles of memory, imagination and dreams in the Byzantine court, the proto-Orthodox church and broader society from Constantinople to Syria and beyond. This volume of Byzantina Australiensia brings together the work of senior and early career scholars from Australia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand and the United States.