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1 online resource |
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Dreaming in the life of Cyril Phileotes / Margaret Mullett -- The morphology of healing dreams : dream and therapy in Byzantine collections of miracle stories / Stavroula Constantinou -- Ecstasy as a form of visionary experience in early Byzantine monastic literature / Bettina Krönung -- The heavenly city : religious and secular visions of the other world in Byzantine literature / Carolina Cupane -- A little revelation for personal use / Christine Angelidi -- Procopius's dream before the campaign against Libya : a reading of wars 3.12.1-5 / Ilias Anagnostakis -- Dream narratives in the continuation of Theophanes / George T. Calofonos -- The historiography of dreaming in medieval Byzantium / Paul Magdalino -- The dream-key manuals of Byzantium / Steven M. Oberhelman -- Byzantine and Islamic dream interpretation : a comparative approach to the problem of "reality" vs. "literary tradition" / Maria Mavroudi -- Fluid dreams, solid consciences : erotic dreams in Byzantium / Charis Messis -- Gender ambiguity in dreams of conversion, prophecy and creativity / Barbara Tedlock -- Psychoanalysis and Byzantine oneirografia / Catia Galatariotou |
| Summary |
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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Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Byzantine Empire -- Historiography -- Psychological aspects
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Dreams -- Byzantine Empire
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Dream interpretation -- Byzantine Empire
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Byzantine literature -- History and criticism
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Christian literature, Byzantine -- History and criticism
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Dreams in literature.
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Christian hagiography.
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Sleep.
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Imagination.
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Humanities.
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Cognition.
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Psychophysiology.
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Human information processing.
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Medicine in literature.
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Literature
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Sleep
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Imagination
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Humanities
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Cognition
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Psychophysiology
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Psychological Phenomena and Processes
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Mental Processes
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Psychiatry and Psychology
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Medicine in Literature
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Dreams
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imagination.
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humanities.
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cognition.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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Sleep
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Psychophysiology
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Medicine in literature
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Imagination
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Humanities
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Human information processing
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Cognition
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Byzantine literature
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Christian hagiography
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Christian literature, Byzantine
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Dream interpretation
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Dreams
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Dreams in literature
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Byzantine Empire
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Angelidē, Christina, author, editor
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Calofonos, George T., author, editor
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| ISBN |
9781472433053 |
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147243305X |
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9781409400554 |
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1409400557 |
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1315578069 |
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9781315578064 |
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1317148150 |
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9781317148159 |
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1317148142 |
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9781317148142 |
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