Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium.

Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium.

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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...

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Superior document:Byzantina Australiensia ; Volume 24
:
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.
Subjects:
Deutschland (DE-588)4011882-4 Familie (DE-588)4016397-0 Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6
Classification:73.43 - Familie. Verwandtschaft. Ehe
08.00 - Philosophie: Allgemeines
Physical Description:1 online resource (362 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Contributors
  • An Introduction to Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium / Bronwen Neil
  • Dreams, Memory and Imagination in the Byzantine Philosophical Tradition
  • The Dangers of Purity: Monastic Reactions to Erotic Dreams / Inbar Graiver
  • Locating Memory and Imagination: From Nemesius of Emesa to John of Damascus / Ken Parry
  • Daydreaming and Lusting after the Divine: Clement of Alexandria and the Platonic Tradition / Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
  • The Inner Source of Dreams: Synesius of Cyrene’s Reception in the Palaiologan Era / Francesco Monticini
  • Prophetic Dreams and Visions in Imperial Contexts
  • Dynastic Dreams and Visions of Early Byzantine Emperors (ca. 518–565 AD) / Meaghan McEvoy
  • Dreaming of Treason: Portentous Dreams and Imperial Coups in Seventh-Century Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourse / Ryan W. Strickler
  • Desire, Dreams, and Visions in the Letters of Emperor Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos and Theodoros of Kyzikos / Mark Masterson
  • The Dream Come True? Matthew of Edessa and the Return of the Roman Emperor / Maximilian Lau
  • Dreams and Memory in Byzantine Chronicles and Encomia
  • Dreams and Imaginative Memory in Select Byzantine Chronicles / Roger Scott
  • Dream Portents in Early Byzantine and Early Islamic Chronicles / Bronwen Neil
  • Psellos’ Use and Counter-Use of Dreams, Visions and Prophecies in His Chronographia and His Encomium for His Mother / Penelope Buckley
  • Remembering the Saints in Hymns and Hagiography
  • Loyalty and Betrayal: Villains, Imagination and Memory in the Reception of the Johannite Schism / Wendy Mayer
  • “As if in a Vision of the Night …”: Authorising the Healing Spring of Chonai / Alan H. Cadwallader
  • Dreaming Liturgically: Andrew of Crete’s Great Kanon as a Mystical Vision / Andrew Mellas
  • Divine Fantasy and the Erotic Imagination in the Hymns of Symeon the New Theologian / Derek Krueger
  • Back Matter
  • General Index.

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