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Contents 6 Acknowledgements 10 Abbreviations 12 Contributors 14 An Introduction to Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium 16 Part 1 Dreams, Memory and Imagination in the Byzantine Philosophical Tradition 30 Chapter 1 The Dangers of Purity: Monastic Reactions to Erotic Dreams 32 Chapter 2 Locating Memory and Imagination: From Nemesius of Emesa to John of Damascus 50 Chapter 3 Daydreaming and Lusting after the Divine: Clement of Alexandria and the Platonic Tradition 72 Chapter 4 The Inner Source of Dreams: Synesius of Cyrene’s Reception in the Palaiologan Era 97 Part 2 Prophetic Dreams and Visions in Imperial Contexts 112 Chapter 5 Dynastic Dreams and Visions of Early Byzantine Emperors (ca. 518–565 AD) 114 Chapter 6 Dreaming of Treason: Portentous Dreams and Imperial Coups in Seventh-Century Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourse 133 Chapter 7 Desire, Dreams, and Visions in the Letters of Emperor Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos and Theodoros of Kyzikos 151 Chapter 8 The Dream Come True? Matthew of Edessa and the Return of the Roman Emperor 175 Part 3 Dreams and Memory in Byzantine Chronicles and Encomia 196 Chapter 9 Dreams and Imaginative Memory in Select Byzantine Chronicles 198 C

Author

Neil, Bronwen;

Published

2018

Language

EN