A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation - The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and Its Arabic Sources

This monograph compares the most important Byzantine work on dream interpretation with the 2nd-century A.D. Greek work of Artemidoros and five medieval Arabic dreambooks and demonstrates that it was based on Islamic Arabic sources adapted for Christian readers of Greek

About the author

Maria Mavroudi, Ph.D. (1998) in Byzantine Studies, Harvard University, specializes in cultural history focusing on bilingualism and the transmission of the occult sciences in the Greek and Arabic Middle Ages

Product details

• Authors: Maria V Mavroudi, Maria V. Mavroudi
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2002
• EAN: 9789004120792
• ISBN: 978-90-04-12079-2
• No. of pages: 524
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 244 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 1066 g
• Series: Medieval Mediterranean
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Esoterics: general, reference works