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Dreaming in the Middle Ages

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
052141069X, 9780521410694, 0521019958, 9780521019958, 9780511518737
LCC
PN671 .K7 1992
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7039188 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Pages
268\266
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This wide-ranging study examines the role of the dream in medieval culture with reference to philosophical, legal and theological writings as well as literary and autobiographical works. Stephen Kruger studies the development of theories of dreaming, from the Neoplatonic and patristic writers to late medieval re-interpretations, and shows how these theories relate to autobiographical accounts and to more popular treatments of dreaming. He considers previously neglected material including one important dream vision by Nicole Oresme, and arrives at a new understanding of this literary genre, and of medieval attitudes to dreaming in general.

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