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Dreams, memory, and imagination in Byzantium /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2018.
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| Colección: | Byzantina Australiensia,
VOLUME 24 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Contributors; An Introduction to Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium; Part 1 Dreams, Memory and Imagination in the Byzantine Philosophical Tradition; Chapter 1 The Dangers of Purity: Monastic Reactions to Erotic Dreams; Chapter 2 Locating Memory and Imagination: From Nemesius of Emesa to John of Damascus; Chapter 3 Daydreaming and Lusting after the Divine: Clement of Alexandria and the Platonic Tradition; Chapter 4 The Inner Source of Dreams: Synesius of Cyrene's Reception in the Palaiologan Era
- Part 2 Prophetic Dreams and Visions in Imperial ContextsChapter 5 Dynastic Dreams and Visions of Early Byzantine Emperors (ca. 518-565 AD); Chapter 6 Dreaming of Treason: Portentous Dreams and Imperial Coups in Seventh-Century Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourse; Chapter 7 Desire, Dreams, and Visions in the Letters of Emperor Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos and Theodoros of Kyzikos; Chapter 8 The Dream Come True? Matthew of Edessa and the Return of the Roman Emperor; Part 3 Dreams and Memory in Byzantine Chronicles and Encomia
- Chapter 9 Dreams and Imaginative Memory in Select Byzantine ChroniclesChapter 10 Dream Portents in Early Byzantine and Early Islamic Chronicles; Chapter 11 Psellos' Use and Counter-Use of Dreams, Visions and Prophecies in His Chronographia and His Encomium for His Mother; Part 4 Remembering the Saints in Hymns and Hagiography; Chapter 12 Loyalty and Betrayal: Villains, Imagination and Memory in the Reception of the Johannite Schism; Chapter 13 "As if in a Vision of the Night ... ": Authorising the Healing Spring of Chonai
- Chapter 14 Dreaming Liturgically: Andrew of Crete's Great Kanon as a Mystical VisionChapter 15 Divine Fantasy and the Erotic Imagination in the Hymns of Symeon the New Theologian; General Index