Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium

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Bronwen Neil, Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
BRILL, Aug 20, 2018 - Religion - 364 pages
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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Contents

An Introduction to Dreams Memory and Imagination in Byzantium
1
Part 1 Dreams Memory and Imagination in the Byzantine Philosophical Tradition
15
Part 2 Prophetic Dreams and Visions in Imperial Contexts
97
Part 3 Dreams and Memory in Byzantine Chronicles and Encomia
181
Part 4 Remembering the Saints in Hymns and Hagiography
247
General Index
343
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About the author (2018)

Bronwen Neil, Ph.D. (ACU 2000), FAHA, is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has published widely on Greek and Latin texts of the Byzantine period. She is co-author of Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt.

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Ph.D. (Kent 2002) is Associate Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is currently working toward a monograph on Platonic inebriation and its reception in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Bibliographic information

TitleDreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium
Volume 24 of Byzantina Australiensia
EditorsBronwen Neil, Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
PublisherBRILL, 2018
ISBN9004375716, 9789004375710
Length364 pages
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