Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36686-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Byzantina Australiensia

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neil, Bronwen

Anagnostou-Laoutides, Eva

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Contributors

An Introduction to Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium

Bronwen Neil

Part 1: Dreams, Memory and Imagination in the Byzantine Philosophical Tradition

1 The Dangers of Purity: Monastic Reactions to Erotic Dreams

Inbar Graiver

2 Locating Memory and Imagination: From Nemesius of Emesa to John of Damascus

Ken Parry

3 Daydreaming and Lusting after the Divine: Clement of Alexandria and the Platonic Tradition

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

4 The Inner Source of Dreams: Synesius of Cyrene’s Reception in the Palaiologan Era

Francesco Monticini

Part 2: Prophetic Dreams and Visions in Imperial Contexts

5 Dynastic Dreams and Visions of Early Byzantine Emperors (ca. 518–565 AD)

Meaghan McEvoy

6 Dreaming of Treason: Portentous Dreams and Imperial Coups in Seventh-Century Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourse

Ryan W. Strickler

7 Desire, Dreams, and Visions in the Letters of Emperor Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos and Theodoros of Kyzikos

Mark Masterson

8 The Dream Come True? Matthew of Edessa and the Return of the Roman Emperor

Maximilian Lau

Part 3: Dreams and Memory in Byzantine Chronicles and Encomia

9 Dreams and Imaginative Memory in Select Byzantine Chronicles

Roger Scott

10 Dream Portents in Early Byzantine and Early Islamic Chronicles

Bronwen Neil

11 Psellos’ Use and Counter-Use of Dreams, Visions and Prophecies in His Chronographia and His Encomium for His Mother

Penelope Buckley

Part 4: Remembering the Saints in Hymns and Hagiography

12 Loyalty and Betrayal: Villains, Imagination and Memory in the Reception of the Johannite Schism

Wendy Mayer

13 “As if in a Vision of the Night …”: Authorising the Healing Spring of Chonai

Alan H. Cadwallader

14 Dreaming Liturgically: Andrew of Crete’s Great Kanon as a Mystical Vision

Andrew Mellas

15 Divine Fantasy and the Erotic Imagination in the Hymns of Symeon the New Theologian

Derek Krueger

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.