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.
• প্রকাশনার বছর: 2010
• ভাষা: English
• মালা: Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ; 2.
• দৈহিক বর্ননা: 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...

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.