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Libiamo ne’ lieti calici. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Lucio Milano on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday by Pupils, Colleagues and Friends. Edited by Paola Corò, Elena Devecchi, Nicla De Zorzi, and Massimo Maiocchi with the collaboration of Stefania Ermidoro and Erica Scarpa, pp. 161-179.
2014
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’s display of literary skill. It is only in recent years that Byzantine dreaming has attracted scholarly attention, and important publications have suggested the way in which Byzantines reshaped ancient interpretative models and applied new perceptions to the functions of dreams. This book - the first collection of studies on Byzantine dreams to be published - aims to demonstrate further the importance of closely examining dreams in Byzantium in their wider historical and cultural, as well as narrative, context. Linked by this common thread, the essays offer insights into the function of dreams in hagiography, historiography, rhetoric, epistolography, and romance. They explore gender and erotic aspects of dreams; they examine cross-cultural facets of dreaming, provide new readings, and contextualize specific cases; they also look at the Greco-Roman background and Islamic influences of Byzantine dreams and their Christianization. The volume provides a broad variety of perspectives, including those of psychoanalysis and anthropology. Contents: Prologue Dreaming in the Life of Cyril Phileotes, Margaret Mullett The morphology of healing dreams: dream and therapy in Byzantine collections of miracle stories, Stavroula Constantinou Ecstasy as a form of visionary experience in early Byzantine monastic literature, Bettina Krönung The heavenly city: religious and secular visions of the other world in Byzantine literature, Carolina Cupane A little revelation for personal use, Christine Angelidi Prokopios’ dream before the campaign against Libya: a reading of Wars 3.12.1-5, Ilias Anagnostakis Dream narratives in the Continuation of Theophanes, George T. Calofonos The historiography of dreaming in medieval Byzantium, Paul Magdalino The dream-key manuals of Byzantium, Steven M. Oberhelman Byzantine and Islamic dream interpretation: a comparative approach to the problem of ‘reality’ vs ‘literary tradition’, Maria Mavroudi Fluid dreams, solid consciences: erotic dreams in Byzantium, Charis Messis Gender ambiguity in dreams of conversion, prophecy and creativity, Barbara Tedlock Psychoanalysis and Byzantine oneirographia, Catia Galatariotou Index. About the Editors: Christine Angelidi is Research Director Emerita at the Institute of Historical Research of the Hellenic National Research Foundation, Greece. George T. Calofonos is Research Associate at the Institute of Historical Research of the Hellenic National Research Foundation, Greece."
Dreaming, 2004
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There is something literary about dreams when they are written down. Dreams and literature intersect in wonder, imagination, and freedom. The excerpts translated here are dream writings from Khābguzārī by an anonymous writer in the twelfth or thirteenth century, and ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt by Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Hamadānī (also known as Ṭūsī) (circa 1161–1178). Translated here for the first time into English, the two excerpts provide examples of how dreams shaped literary imagination in medieval Persian dream interpretation manuals (khāb-nāma) and anthologies of wondrous things (ʿajāyib-nāma).
What can be learned about Byzantine dream culture from the works of Byzantine historians? on first impression, the answer would seem to be, not much. Dream narratives and mentions of dreams occupy very little space in the voluminous pages of Byzantine historical literature. some texts contain none at all; a significant number record only one dream, while of those that narrate more than three, all but two works achieve this statistic mainly with material drawn from earlier texts, including, of course, the Bible which was a standard source for the universal chronicles that remained the bedrock of history-writing throughout the middle ages. yet the incidence of dreams in historical narratives, and the types of dreams they narrate, afford some insight into the role of dreams in the Byzantine conception of history. The pattern obtained should reveal something of the importance those Byzantine historians and their readers accorded to dreams in the construction and explanation of past events. admittedly, to say this is to beg two very big questions that cannot be answered in this chapter. first, how does one measure the importance of a Byzantine literary motif – by the frequency, or by the conspicuous singularity, with which it occurs in the composition? By the insistence or the understatement of the author? By its originality, or by the richness of its borrowings, echoes and allusions? secondly, what was the Byzantines' conception of good history? according to the prefaces of their historical compositions, it was not that different from ours: a sober concern for the plain, unvarnished truth; to tell things the way they really happened, on the basis of eyewitness observation and careful research. 1 They clearly distinguished, in theory, between history writing and rhetorical modes of expression that served to embroider and distort the facts, to whitewash and denigrate the actors. But in practice, they treated historiography as literature that had to edify, entertain and echo other literary works; and they used it, like other forms of literature, as a vehicle for ideological argument and the settling 1 on the motifs of historical prooimia, see i. grigoriadis, 'a study of the Prooimion of zonaras' Chronicle in relation to other 12th-Century historical Prooimia' , BZ 91 (1998), 328–44.
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