Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium

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.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsContributorsAn Introduction to Dreams, Memory and Imagination in ByzantiumBronwen NeilPart 1: Dreams, Memory and Imagination in the Byzantine Philosophical Tradition1 The Dangers of Purity: Monastic Reactions to Erotic DreamsInbar Graiver2 Locating Memory and Imagination: From Nemesius of Emesa to John of DamascusKen Parry3 Daydreaming and Lusting after the Divine: Clement of Alexandria and the Platonic TraditionEva Anagnostou-Laoutides4 The Inner Source of Dreams: Synesius of Cyrene’s Reception in the Palaiologan EraFrancesco MonticiniPart 2: Prophetic Dreams and Visions in Imperial Contexts5 Dynastic Dreams and Visions of Early Byzantine Emperors (ca. 518–565 AD)Meaghan McEvoy6 Dreaming of Treason: Portentous Dreams and Imperial Coups in Seventh-Century Byzantine Apocalyptic DiscourseRyan W. Strickler7 Desire, Dreams, and Visions in the Letters of Emperor Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos and Theodoros of KyzikosMark Masterson8 The Dream Come True? Matthew of Edessa and the Return of the Roman EmperorMaximilian LauPart 3: Dreams and Memory in Byzantine Chronicles and Encomia9 Dreams and Imaginative Memory in Select Byzantine ChroniclesRoger Scott10 Dream Portents in Early Byzantine and Early Islamic ChroniclesBronwen Neil11 Psellos’ Use and Counter-Use of Dreams, Visions and Prophecies in His Chronographia and His Encomium for His MotherPenelope BuckleyPart 4: Remembering the Saints in Hymns and Hagiography12 Loyalty and Betrayal: Villains, Imagination and Memory in the Reception of the Johannite SchismWendy Mayer13 “As if in a Vision of the Night …”: Authorising the Healing Spring of ChonaiAlan H. Cadwallader14 Dreaming Liturgically: Andrew of Crete’s Great Kanon as a Mystical VisionAndrew Mellas15 Divine Fantasy and the Erotic Imagination in the Hymns of Symeon the New TheologianDerek KruegerGeneral Index