Dreams and visions : : an interdisciplinary enquiry / / edited by Nancy van Deusen.

• Superior document: Presenting the past, v. 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Van Deusen, Nancy
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ; 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 398 pages, 43 pages of plates) :; illustrations

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.

Table of 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.