Dreams and visions : : an interdisciplinary enquiry /

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

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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...

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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
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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.

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