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Author : Steven M. Oberhelman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Oneirocritic Literature of the Late Roman and Byzantine Eras of Greece written by Steven M. Oberhelman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria V. Mavroudi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004473467
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation written by Maria V. Mavroudi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the so-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet, the most important Byzantine work on dream interpretation which was written in Greek in the 10th century and has greatly influenced subsequent dreambooks in Byzantine Greek, Medieval Latin, and modern European languages. By comparing the Oneirocriticon with the 2nd-century A.D. dreambook of Artemidoros (translated into Arabic in the 9th century) and five medieval Arabic dreambooks, this study demonstrates that the Oneirocriticon is a Christian Greek adaption of Islamic Arabic material and that the similarities between it and Artemidoros are due to the influence of Artemidoros on the Arabic sources of the Byzantine work. The Oneirocriticon's textual tradition, its language, the identities of its author and patron, and its position among other Byzantine translations from Arabic into Greek are also investigated.
Author : Steven M. Oberhelman
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896722620
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (226 download)
Download or read book The Oneirocriticon of Achmet written by Steven M. Oberhelman and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any scholar interested in dreams will be in Oberhelman's debt. His lucid translation and helpful annotations have brought Achmet away from the private preserve of Byzantinists and into the academic mainstream. His thoughtful introduction not only persuasively argues for Achmet's relevance, but provides a modern, theoretically sophisticated introduction to the study of dreams in their historical context. The side connections that he draws between cultures, time periods, and methodologies of study should provide a valuable stimulus for future work; and, as a valuable bonus, this material could fit very well into the classroom. -- C. Robert Phillips, III Achmet is an observer of culture as he analyzes hundreds of dreams in context of gender, politics, socioeconomic class, psychological and physical state, cultural upbringing and religion.
Author : Beatrice Gruendler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904742381X
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms written by Beatrice Gruendler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume brings together approaches to different elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, mainly in the areas of linguistics, literature, literary theory, and prosody, but also including religion, ritual, economics, and zoology. Contributions also touch upon the adjacent areas of the Old Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine written traditions. Some take as their points of departure specific Arabic words (cat, giraffe) or morphemes; others explore literary genres, subgenres (oration, ode, macaronic poem, travel narrative) or figures within them (the trickster, the devil). Cultural concepts such as wishing, gift-giving or discourse are treated, as are aspects of broader phenomena, such as the role of gender in dream interpretation or the relative merits of luxury goods and mass-produced commodities.
Author : Suzanne Macalister
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135086435
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Dreams and Suicides written by Suzanne Macalister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and can only be understood against the cultural backdrop of ancient Greek literature. Dreams and Suicides analyses the cultural symptoms and attitudes portrayed or implied in the novels, thus rooting them in a social rather than merely a literary context. For all students of ancient culture, this book provides important and original insights into the genre of ancient literature.
Author : Peter Crawford
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399072846
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Emperor Leo III the Isaurian written by Peter Crawford and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-12-30 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Empire (long since ruled from Constantinople) was in a perilous and tumultuous position in the early eighth century. Surrounded by expansionist enemies, most notably the Muslim Arab Umayyad Caliphate but also the Khazars, Slavs, Avars, Bulgars and Lombards, it was also riven by religious controversy and internal political instability. When a plot brought Leo III to the throne in 717, he was the fourth Emperor since Justinian II’s assassination six years earlier. Within weeks of his accession he was faced with the year-long siege of his capital by the Arabs. The siege was eventually broken (with the help of the secret weapon, Greek fire) but was only the first of many crises Leo faced in his twenty-four-year reign. His tenure saw a number of rebellions, and Peter Crawford considers how Leo dealt with these (and the extent to which his own policies caused them). Space is given to the great religious development of his reign, the initiation of Iconoclasm, its impact on the empire and its tainting of the reputation of Leo and much of his dynasty. He also considers various aspects of Leo’s administration: coinage, provincial infrastructure, civil law and foreign policy. This is a thorough and fascinating reassessment of a ruler who brought the Empire from the brink of extinction and maintained it through a time of real crisis.
Author : Jennifer Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521583160
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Coleridge on Dreaming written by Jennifer Ford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in-depth investigation of Coleridge's responses to his dreams and to contemporary debates on the nature of dreaming, a subject of perennial interest to poets, philosophers and scientists throughout the Romantic period. Coleridge wrote and read extensively on the subject, but his richly diverse and original ideas have hitherto received little attention, scattered as they are throughout his notebooks, letters and marginalia. Jennifer Ford's emphasis is on analysing the ways in which dreaming processes were construed, by Coleridge in his dream readings, and by his contemporaries in a range of poetic and medical works. This historical exploration of dreams and dreaming allows Ford to explore previously neglected contemporary debates on 'the medical imagination'. By avoiding purely biographical or psychoanalytic approaches, she reveals instead a rich historical context for the ways in which the most mysterious workings of the Romantic imagination were explored and understood.
Author : Sándor Chardonnens
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904742042X
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100 written by Sándor Chardonnens and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scholarship on the Anglo-Saxon prognostics has tried to place these texts within the realm of folklore and medicine, inspired largely by studies and editions from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By analysing prognostic material in its manuscript context, this book offers a novel approach to the status and purpose of prognostic texts in the early Middle Ages with particular attention to the Anglo-Saxon tradition. From this perspective, it emerges that prognostication in Anglo-Saxon England was not folkloric but a scholarly pursuit by monks not primarily interested in the medical aspects of prognostication. In addition, this book offers, for the first time, a comprehensive edition of prognostics in Old English and Latin from Anglo-Saxon and early post-Conquest manuscripts. Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, vol. 3
Author : Faith Wigzell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521581233
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Reading Russian Fortunes written by Faith Wigzell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Russian Fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from the eighteenth century to the present. Based partly on a study of the numerous editions of little fortune-telling books, especially those devoted to dream interpretation, it documents and analyses the social history of fortune-telling in terms of class and gender, at the same time considering the function of both amateur and professional fortune-telling in a literate modernizing society. Chapters are devoted to professional fortune-tellers and their clients, and to the publishers of the books. An analysis of the relationship between urban fortune-telling and traditional oral culture, where divination played a very significant role, leads on to a discussion of the underlying reasons for the persistence of fortune-telling in modern Russian society.
Author : Francis K.H. So
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137583819
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Perceiving Power in Early Modern Europe written by Francis K.H. So and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection conceptualizes the question of rulership in past centuries, incorporating such diverse disciplines as archaeology, art history, history, literature and psychoanalysis to illustrate how kings and queens ruled in Europe from the antiquity to early modern times. It discusses forms of kingship such as client-kingship, monarchy, queen consort and regnant queenship that manifest gubernatorial power in concert with paternal succession and the divine right of the king. While the king assumes a religious dimension in his obligatory functions, justice and peace are vital elements to maintain his sovereignty. In sum, the active side of governmental power is to keep peace and order leading to prosperity for the subjects; the passive side of power is to protect the subjects from external attack and free them from fear. These concepts of power find concurrence in modern times as well as in non-European cultures. Through a truly cross-cultural, transnational, multidimensional, gender-conscious and interdisciplinary study, this collection offers a cutting edge account of how power has been exercised and demonstrated in various cultures of some bygone eras.
Author : Katz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004378928
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Dreams, Sufism and Sainthood written by Katz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Muhammad al-Zawâwî's extraordinary diary of 109 dream conversations with the Prophet Muhammad, this study provides a rare, intimate view of 15th-century North African Muslim life. The study reconstructs Zawâwî's lifestory over a critical ten-year period and examines his career as a sufi in the historical context of North Africa and Mamluk Cairo. Psychological aspects of Zawâwî's religious experience are thoroughly explored. The concluding chapter provides an introduction to the role of dreams and visions in medieval Islam. Particular attention is paid to the way Zawâwî and his successors used their visions to legitimate claims to being awliya', or living saints.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of Ottoman studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-12 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Byzantine Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Classical and Modern Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of Minnesota
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Register of Ph.D's, University of Minnesota written by University of Minnesota and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Bryer
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Total Pages : 494 pages
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Download or read book Byzantinische Forschungen written by Anthony Bryer and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationale Zeitschrift für Byzantinistik.
