Dreaming in byzantium and beyond
Auteur :
Calofonos, George T.
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781409400554
Date de publication :
28 juin 2014
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
589 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.