| Description |
vi, 398 p., 43 p. of plates : ill. |
| Series |
Presenting the past, 1875-2799 ; v. 2 |
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Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Dreams and visions / Nancy van Deusen -- Daniel the dreamer, Daniel the dream-reader / Meg Worley -- Cassiodorus and Theodoric : a vision of reviving falling cities / Birgitta Lindros Wohl -- The lament and Augustine : visions of disintegration and transformation / Nancy Van Deusen -- In the beginning : theories and images of creation in Northern Europe in the twelfth century / Conrad Rudolph -- Visions of verbum incartanum : Augustinian homiletics and English Christmas sermons, 900-1700 / Wendy Furman-Adams -- Plotinian image and the medieval representation of divinity / Ann R. Meyer -- St. Bonaventure's "Doctrine of illumination" : an artifact of modernity / Wendy Petersen Boring -- Dreams, visions, and nightmares in Islam : from the Prophet Mohammad to the fundamentalist mindset / Tamara Albertini -- The vision of heaven and knowledge in Castilian literature : from Alfonso X to Alfonso de la Torre / Ana M. Montero -- The Vulgate Grail / Michael Murrin -- A vision of poverty : remembering the Passion and the Christian ideal in the imagery of the Observant Franciscans / Virginia K. Henderson -- Dream and vision in Shakespeare's plays / David Bevington -- Dreams, visions, and delusions : madness in Shakespeare / J. Harold Ellens -- Vision in the eye of the beholder : translation or transformation / Eolene M. Boyd-MacMillan -- Beyond three : Jung, anthropology and number / John N. Crossley -- A vision of dwarfs / Joanna Woods-Marsden -- The Dawes Act of 1887 : a dream of "civilizing the savages" that became a nightmare for Native Americans / Robert W. Hanning. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Intellectual life -- History.
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Middle Ages -- Intellectual life.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Dreams -- Philosophy.
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Visions -- Philosophy.
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Dreams -- History.
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Visions -- History.
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Dreams in literature.
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Visions in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Van Deusen, Nancy (Nancy Elizabeth)
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9789004179714 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9004179712 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9789047444015 (electronic bk.) |
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