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Dreams and visions : an interdisciplinary enquiry / edited by Nancy van Deusen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ; 2.
- Presenting the past, 1875-2799 ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectual life--History.
- Intellectual life.
- Middle Ages--Intellectual life.
- Middle Ages.
- Philosophy, Medieval.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Dreams--Philosophy.
- Dreams.
- Visions--Philosophy.
- Visions.
- Dreams--History.
- Visions--History.
- Dreams in literature.
- Visions in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 398 pages, 43 pages of plates) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Dreams and Visions have constituted an important topic and point of departure in the past; but also continue to play a present role in literature, political thought, economic theory, and in the arts. An essential historical topos, Dreams and Visions --the second in a series that projects past issues into the present--brings significant contributions from an interdisciplinary spectrum of standpoints in order to discover fresh insights. Perhaps this is the essence, in any case, of \'Vision\'--to discover new, fresh ways of conceptualizing a problem, topic, or historical enquiry, which is the goal of this volume. Contributors are Tamara Albertini, David Bevington, Eolene M. Boyd-MacMillan, John N. Crossley, J. Harold Ellens, Wendy Furman-Adams, Robert W. Hanning, Virginia K. Henderson, Birgitta Lindros Wohl, Ann R. Meyer, Ana M. Montero, Michael Murrin, Wendy Petersen Boring, Conrad Rudolph, Nancy Van Deusen, Joanna Woods-Marsden, and Meg Worley.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Dreams and visions / Nancy van Deusen
- Daniel the dreamer, Daniel the dream-reader / Meg Worley
- Cassiodorus and Theodoric : a vision of reviving falling cities / Birgitta Lindros Wohl
- The lament and Augustine : visions of disintegration and transformation / Nancy Van Deusen
- In the beginning : theories and images of creation in Northern Europe in the twelfth century / Conrad Rudolph
- Visions of verbum incartanum : Augustinian homiletics and English Christmas sermons, 900-1700 / Wendy Furman-Adams
- Plotinian image and the medieval representation of divinity / Ann R. Meyer
- St. Bonaventure's "Doctrine of illumination" : an artifact of modernity / Wendy Petersen Boring
- Dreams, visions, and nightmares in Islam : from the Prophet Mohammad to the fundamentalist mindset / Tamara Albertini
- The vision of heaven and knowledge in Castilian literature : from Alfonso X to Alfonso de la Torre / Ana M. Montero
- The Vulgate Grail / Michael Murrin
- A vision of poverty : remembering the Passion and the Christian ideal in the imagery of the Observant Franciscans / Virginia K. Henderson
- Dream and vision in Shakespeare's plays / David Bevington
- Dreams, visions, and delusions : madness in Shakespeare / J. Harold Ellens
- Vision in the eye of the beholder : translation or transformation / Eolene M. Boyd-MacMillan
- Beyond three : Jung, anthropology and number / John N. Crossley
- A vision of dwarfs / Joanna Woods-Marsden
- The Dawes Act of 1887 : a dream of "civilizing the savages" that became a nightmare for Native Americans / Robert W. Hanning.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-95117-3
- 9786612951176
- 90-474-4401-9
- OCLC:
- 695990308
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004179714.i-368 DOI
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