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This collection of studies on
Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium covers four main themes: the place of dreams, imagination and memory in the Byzantine philosophical tradition; the political uses of prophetic dreams and visions in imperial contexts; the appearance and manipulation of dreams and memory in Byzantine poetry and histories, and changing commemorations of the saints over time in art, epigraphy and literature. These studies reveal the distinctive and important roles of memory, imagination and dreams in the Byzantine court, the proto-Orthodox church and broader society from Constantinople to Syria and beyond. This volume of Byzantina Australiensia brings together the work of senior and early career scholars from Australia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand and the United States.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Bronwen Neil, Ph.D. (ACU 2000), FAHA, is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has published widely on Greek and Latin texts of the Byzantine period. She is co-author of
Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt.
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Ph.D. (Kent 2002) is Associate Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is currently working toward a monograph on Platonic inebriation and its reception in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
