Dreams and visions
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary enquiry
By: edited by Nancy van Deusen.
Contributors: Van Deusen, Nancy
Series: Presenting the past -- v. 2; Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) -- v. 2.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9789004179714
Subjects: Intellectual life -- History; Middle Ages -- Intellectual life; Philosophy, Medieval; Civilization, Medieval; Dreams -- Philosophy; Visions -- Philosophy; Dreams -- History; Visions -- History; Dreams in literature; Visions in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Dreams and visions / Nancy van Deusen; title: Daniel the dreamer, Daniel the dream-reader / Meg Worley; title: Cassiodorus and Theodoric : a vision of reviving falling cities / Birgitta Lindros Wohl; title: The lament and Augustine : visions of disintegration and transformation / Nancy Van Deusen; title: In the beginning : theories and images of creation in Northern Europe in the twelfth century / Conrad Rudolph; title: Visions of verbum incartanum : Augustinian homiletics and English Christmas sermons, 900-1700 / Wendy Furman-Adams; title: Plotinian image and the medieval representation of divinity / Ann R. Meyer; title: St. Bonaventure's "Doctrine of illumination" : an artifact of modernity / Wendy Petersen Boring; title: Dreams, visions, and nightmares in Islam : from the Prophet Mohammad to the fundamentalist mindset / Tamara Albertini; title: The vision of heaven and knowledge in Castilian literature : from Alfonso X to Alfonso de la Torre / Ana M. Montero; title: The Vulgate Grail / Michael Murrin; title: A vision of poverty : remembering the Passion and the Christian ideal in the imagery of the Observant Franciscans / Virginia K. Henderson; title: Dream and vision in Shakespeare's plays / David Bevington; title: Dreams, visions, and delusions : madness in Shakespeare / J. Harold Ellens; title: Vision in the eye of the beholder : translation or transformation / Eolene M. Boyd-MacMillan; title: Beyond three : Jung, anthropology and number / John N. Crossley; title: A vision of dwarfs / Joanna Woods-Marsden; title: The Dawes Act of 1887 : a dream of "civilizing the savages" that became a nightmare for Native Americans / Robert W. Hanning.