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1 online resource |
| Series |
Byzantina Australiensia, 0725-3079 ; VOLUME 24 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes index |
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Dreams -- Byzantine Empire
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Memory -- Byzantine Empire
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Imagination.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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Dreams
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Imagination
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Memory
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Byzantine Empire
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Neil, Bronwen, editor
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| LC no. |
2018031578 |
| ISBN |
9789004375710 |
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9004375716 |
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