Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium
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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. Contents......Page 5 Acknowledgements......Page 9 Abbreviations......Page 11 Contributors......Page 13 An Introduction to Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium......Page 15 Part 1 Dreams, Memory and Imagination in the Byzantine Philosophical Tradition......Page 29 Chapter 1 The Dangers of Purity: Monastic Reactions to Erotic Dreams......Page 31 Chapter 2 Locating Memory and Imagination: From Nemesius of Emesa to John of Damascus......Page 49 Chapter 3 Daydreaming and Lusting after the Divine: Clement of Alexandria and the Platonic Tradition......Page 71 Chapter 4 The Inner Source of Dreams: Synesius of Cyrene’s Reception in the Palaiologan Era......Page 96 Part 2 Prophetic Dreams and Visions in Imperial Contexts......Page 111 Chapter 5 Dynastic Dreams and Visions of Early Byzantine Emperors (ca. 518–565 AD)......Page 113 Chapter 6 Dreaming of Treason: Portentous Dreams and Imperial Coups in Seventh-Century Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourse......Page 132 Chapter 7 Desire, Dreams, and Visions in the Letters of Emperor Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos and Theodoros of Kyzikos......Page 150 Chapter 8 The Dream Come True? Matthew of Edessa and the Return of the Roman Emperor......Page 174 Part 3 Dreams and Memory in Byzantine Chronicles and Encomia......Page 195 Chapter 9 Dreams and Imaginative Memory in Select Byzantine Chronicles......Page 197 Chapter 10 Dream Portents in Early Byzantine and Early Islamic Chronicles......Page 222 Chapter 11 Psellos’ Use and Counter-Use of Dreams,Visions and Prophecies in His Chronographia and His Encomium for His Mother......Page 241 Part 4 Remembering the Saints in Hymns and Hagiography......Page 261 Chapter 12 Loyalty and Betrayal: Villains, Imagination and Memory in the Reception of the Johannite Schism......Page 263 Chapter 13 “As if in a Vision of the Night …”: Authorising the Healing Spring of Chonai......Page 279 Chapter 14 Dreaming Liturgically: Andrew of Crete’s Great Kanon as a Mystical Vision......Page 307 Chapter 15 Divine Fantasy and the Erotic Imagination in the Hymns of Symeon the New Theologian......Page 329 General Index......Page 357
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