Dreambooks in the Middle Ages : A Global Perspective /
This volume explores the intricate art of interpreting dream symbols by tracing the evolution of oneirocritical traditions across Asia, the Middle East, and the Latin West. Spanning the classical, medieval, and modern periods, it reveals how diverse cultures have used dreambooks to translate imagine...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
Series:
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026
Reading Medieval Sources ;
10.
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Call Number: D410
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Predicting the Past
- Valerio Cappozzo
- 1 Interpreting Dreams: the Reception and Use of Dreambooks in the Early Middle Ages
- Jesse Keskiaho
- 2 The Influence of Gender on Dream Readings in Early Byzantine and Islamic Dreambooks
- Bronwen Neil
- 3 Dreams in Islam: a Possible Mystical Experience?
- Pierre Lory
- 4 Oneiric Discourse in the Spanish Middle Ages
- Gabriela Cerghedean
- 5 The Newly Discovered Italian Tradition of the Somniale Danielis
- Valerio Cappozzo
- 6 Possessed by Dreams: Dream Interpretation Manuals in Late Medieval England
- Boyda Johnstone
- 7 "'Whether or not/these things Are hopeless,/it will tell me so"': Chaucerian Dream Poetry and the Medieval Dream-Book
- Lotte Reinbold
- 8 Divining and Organizing the Past: Dream Encyclopedic Knowledge in China
- Brigid E. Vance
- 9 Divination and Oneiromancy in Codex 1275 of the National Library of Greece
- Steven M. Oberhelman
- 10 Conspectus of the Western Manuscripts and Early Printed Books of the Somniale Danielis
- Lorenzo DiTommaso and László Sándor Chardonnens
- Index.