Contributer:
Angelidē, Christina
,
Calofonos, George T.
Title:
Dreaming in Byzantium and beyond
Publisher(s):
Ashgate
Year of publication:
2014
Document type:
Online Resource
ISBN:
9781472433053
,
147243305X
Terms of use:
Vorläufiger Zugriff bis Ende Juni 2022
Subject(s):
Byzantine Empire
;
Dreams
;
Dream interpretation
;
Byzantine literature
;
Christian literature, Byzantine
;
Dreams in literature
;
Christian hagiography
;
Literature
;
Sleep
;
Imagination
;
Humanities
;
Cognition
;
Psychophysiology
;
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
;
Mental Processes
;
Psychiatry and Psychology
;
Medicine in Literature
;
Dreams
;
HISTORY
;
Byzantine literature
;
Christian hagiography
;
Christian literature, Byzantine
;
Dream interpretation
;
Dreams
;
Dreams in literature
Abstract:
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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