[edited by] Christine Angelidi and George T. Calofonos.
New York :
Routledge,
2016.
1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages)
"First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Dreaming in the Life of Cyril Phileotes / Margaret Mullett -- 2. The morphology of healing dreams : dream and therapy in Byzantine collections of miracle stories / Stavroula Constantinou -- 3. Ecstasy as a form of visionary experience in early Byzantine monastic literature / Bettina Krönung -- 4. The heavenly city : religious and secular visions of the other world in Byzantine literature / Carolina Cupane -- 5. A little revelation for personal use / Christine Angelidi -- 6. Prokopios' dream before the campaign against Libya : a reading of Wars 3.12.1-5 / Ilias Anagnostakis -- 7. Dream narratives in the Continuation of Theophanes / George T. Calofonos -- 8. The historiography of dreaming in medieval Byzantium / Paul Magdalino -- 9. The dream-key manuals of Byzantium / Steven M. Oberhelman -- 10. Byzantine and Islamic dream interpretation : a comparative approach to the problem of 'reality' vs. 'literary tradition' / Maria Mavroudi -- 11. Fluid dreams, solid consciences : erotic dreams in Byzantium / Charis Messis -- 12. Gender ambiguity in dreams of conversion, prophecy and creativity / Barbara Tedlock -- 13. Psychoanalysis and Byzantine oneirografia / Catia Galatariotou.