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Dreaming in the Middle Ages (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) [Hardcover]

Steven F. Kruger (Author)

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Publication Date: June 26, 1992 | ISBN-10: 052141069X | ISBN-13: 978-0521410694

This wide-ranging study examines the role of the dream in medieval culture with reference to philosophical, legal and theological writings as well as literary and autobiographical works. Stephen Kruger studies the development of theories of dreaming, from the Neoplatonic and patristic writers to late medieval re-interpretations, and shows how these theories relate to autobiographical accounts and to more popular treatments of dreaming. He considers previously neglected material including one important dream vision by Nicole Oresme, and arrives at a new understanding of this literary genre, and of medieval attitudes to dreaming in general.

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This wide-ranging study examines the role of the dream in medieval culture with reference to philosophical, legal and theological writings as well as literary and autobiographical works.

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Hardcover: 268 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (June 26, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 052141069X
ISBN-13: 978-0521410694
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
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Writers of the high and late Middle Ages treated the experience of dreaming with simultaneous anxiety and fascination. Read the first page

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discretione animae, dream hierarchies, thesauri occulti, dream alphabet, medieval dream theory, modo bene vivendi, medieval dreambook, lower dreams, classifying dreams, sogni nel medioevo, dream classification, dream lore, medieval dream vision, gli astri, demonic dreams, middle vision, dream theorists, dream divination, predictive dreams, revelatory dreams, dream discussion, corporeal vision, des songes, dream phenomena, literary dreams

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Middle Ages, Albertus Magnus, Pascalis Romanus, Vincent of Beauvais, Guillaume de Conches, John of Salisbury, Gregory the Great, Somniale Danielis, Alain de Lille, Late Antiquity, Old Testament, Visio Wettini, Johannis Michaelis, Raoul de Longchamps, Thomas Aquinas, Albert of Orlamunde, Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, Middle High German, Thomas de Chobham, Vita Popponis

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This book cites 96 books:

Piers Plowman (Norton Critical Editions) by William Langland on 6 pages
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Canto) by C. S. Lewis on 6 pages
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud on 5 pages
Medieval Popular Culture (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture) by Aron Gurevich on 4 pages
Traumdeutung (German Edition) by Sigmund Freud on 4 pages

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Perception and Passion in Dante's Comedy by Patrick Boyde on 4 pages
Chaucer's Dream Visions and Shorter Poems (Basic Readings in Chaucer and His Time) by William A. Quinn on page 9, page 474, and Back Matter
Through the Daemon's Gate: Kepler's Somnium, Medieval Dream Narratives, and the Polysemy of Allegorical Motifs (Studies in Medieval History and Culture) by Dean Swinford on page 94, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory by Suzanne Conklin Akbari in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages: Lollardy and Ideas of Learning (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Rita Copeland on page 67, Back Matter, and Index

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