Dreaming in the Middle Ages

Klappentext Stephen Kruger considers previously neglected material and arrives at a new understanding of this literary genre! and of medieval attitudes to dreaming in general. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: modern and medieval dreams; 1. Dreambooks and their audiences; 2. The doubleness and middleness of dreams; 3. The patristic dream; 4. From the fourth to the twelfth century; 5. Aristotle and the late-medieval dream; 6. Dreams and fiction; 7. Dreams and life; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Steven F. Kruger, Kruger Steven F.
• Assisted by: Alastair Minnis (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2005
• EAN: 9780521019958
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01995-8
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages