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This book - the first collection of studies on Byzantine dreams to be published - aims to demonstrate the importance of closely examining dreams in Byzantium in their wider historical and cultural, as well as narrative, context. The remarkable number of dream narratives in Byzantine hagiography, historiography, rhetoric, epistolography, and romance attests to the cardinal function of dreams as vehicles of meaning in politics, religion and literature. The essays provide a broad variety of perspectives, exploring gender, eroticism, Greco-Roman and Islamic influences, psychoanalysis and anthropol

History of Greece --- History of civilization --- Christian church history --- Dreams --- Dream interpretation --- Byzantine literature --- Christian literature, Byzantine --- Dreams in literature. --- Christian hagiography. --- Rêves --- Littérature byzantine --- Littérature chrétienne byzantine --- Rêves dans la littérature --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- History and criticism. --- Interprétation --- Histoire et critique --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- Historiography --- Historiographie --- Dreams in literature --- Christian hagiography --- Psychological aspects --- History and criticism --- Psychological aspects. --- Rêves --- Littérature byzantine --- Littérature chrétienne byzantine --- Rêves dans la littérature --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Interprétation --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Dreaming --- Subconsciousness --- Visions --- Sleep --- Analysis, Dream --- Dream analysis --- Interpretation, Dream --- Interpretation --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- Historiography. --- Byzantine Empire - Historiography - Psychological aspects --- Dreams - Byzantine Empire --- Dream interpretation - Byzantine Empire --- Byzantine literature - History and criticism --- Christian literature, Byzantine - History and criticism --- Byzance