Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond by George T. Calofonos (Paperback, 2020)

Name: Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond by George T. Calofonos (Paperback, 2020)
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book - the first collection of studies on Byzantine dreams to be published - aims to demonstrate the importance of closely examining dreams in Byzantium in their wider historical and cultural, as well as narrative, context. The remarkable number of dream narratives in Byzantine hagiography, historiography, rhetoric, epistolography, and romance > Although the actual dreaming experience of the Byzantines lies beyond our reach, the remarkable number of dream narratives in the surviving sources of the period attests to the cardinal function of dreams as vehicles of meaning, and thus affords modern scholars access to the wider cultural fabric of symbolic representations of the Byzantine world. Whether recounting real or invented dreams, the narratives serve various purposes, such as political and religious agendas, personal aspirations or simply an author\u2019s display of literary skill. It is only in recent years that Byzantine dreaming has attracted scholarly attention, and imp.