Author : Mike Jay
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781907650147
Emperors of Dreams
Mike Jay
Emperors Of Dreams
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Emperors of Dreams
S. T. Joshi
Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher : P'Rea Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0980462541
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The Interpretation of Dreams
Artemidorus
Author : Artemidorus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192518873
The Interpretation of Dreams by Artemidorus Pdf
'Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source' Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream interpretation, and the only dream-book to have survived complete from Graeco-Roman times. Written in Greek around AD 200, when dreams were believed by many to offer insight into future events, the work is a compendium of interpretations of dreams on a wide range of subjects relating to the natural, human, and divine worlds. It includes the meanings of dreams about the body, sex, eating and drinking, dress, the weather, animals, the gods, and much else. Artemidorus' technique of dream interpretation stresses the need to know the background of the dreamer, such as occupation, health, status, habits, and age, and the work is a fascinating social history, revealing much about ancient life, culture, and beliefs, and attitudes to the dominant power of Imperial Rome. Martin Hammond's fine translation is accompanied by a lucid introduction and explanatory notes by Peter Thonemann, which assist the reader in understanding this important work, which was an influence on both Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault.
Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium
Bronwen Neil,Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Author : Bronwen Neil,Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004375710
Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium by Bronwen Neil,Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides Pdf
This collection of studies on Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium reveals the distinctive and important roles of memory, imagination and dreams in the Byzantine court, the proto-Orthodox church and broader society from Constantinople to Syria and beyond
The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan, 1398-1707
Edward Singleton Holden
Author : Edward Singleton Holden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015013431781
The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan, 1398-1707 by Edward Singleton Holden Pdf
The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan, A.D. 1389- A.D. 1707
Edward Singleton Holden
Author : Edward Singleton Holden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : India
ISBN : UCAL:$B49741
The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan, A.D. 1389- A.D. 1707 by Edward Singleton Holden Pdf
An Ancient Dream Manual
Peter Thonemann
Author : Peter Thonemann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192582027
An Ancient Dream Manual by Peter Thonemann Pdf
Artemidorus' Oneirocritica ('The Interpretation of Dreams') is the only dream-book which has been preserved from Graeco-Roman antiquity. Composed around AD 200, it comprises a treatise and manual on dreams, their classification, and the various analytical tools which should be applied to their interpretation, making Artemidorus both one of the earliest documented and arguably the single most important predecessor and precursor of Freud. Artemidorus travelled widely through Greece, Asia, and Italy to collect people's dreams and record their outcomes, in the process casting a vivid light on social mores and religious beliefs in the Severan age: this volume, published as a companion to the new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams by Martin Hammond in the Oxford World's Classics series, aims to provide the non-specialist reader with a readable and engaging road-map to this vast and complex text. It offers a detailed analysis of Artemidorus' theory of dreams and the social function of ancient dream-interpretation, while also aiming to foster an understanding of the ways in which Artemidorus might be of interest to the cultural or social historian of the Graeco-Roman world. Alongside chapters on Artemidorus' life, career, and world-view, it also provides valuable insights into his conceptions of the human body, sexuality, the natural world, and the gods; his attitudes towards Rome, the contemporary Greek polis, and the social order; and his knowledge of Greek literature, myth, and history. In addition, its accessible exploration of the differences and similarities between ancient traditions of dream-analysis and modern psychoanalytic approaches will make this volume of interest to anybody with an interest in the history of dreams and dream interpretation.
Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity
William V. Harris
Author : William V. Harris
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674264335
Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity by William V. Harris Pdf
From the Iliad to Aristophanes, from the gospel of Matthew to Augustine, Greek and Latin texts are constellated with descriptive images of dreams. Some are formulaic, others intensely vivid. The best ancient minds—Plato, Aristotle, the physician Galen, and others—struggled to understand the meaning of dreams. With Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity the renowned ancient historian William Harris turns his attention to oneiric matters. This cultural history of dreams in antiquity draws on both contemporary post-Freudian science and careful critiques of the ancient texts. Harris traces the history of characteristic forms of dream-description and relates them both to the ancient experience of dreaming and to literary and religious imperatives. He analyzes the nuances of Greek and Roman belief in the truth-telling potential of dreams, and in a final chapter offers an assessment of ancient attempts to understand dreams naturalistically. How did dreaming culture evolve from Homer’s time to late antiquity? What did these dreams signify? And how do we read and understand ancient dreams through modern eyes? Harris takes an elusive subject and writes about it with rigor and precision, reminding us of specificities, contexts, and changing attitudes through history.
Reading Dreams
Derek S. Dodson
Author : Derek S. Dodson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567153203
Reading Dreams by Derek S. Dodson Pdf
Dodson reads the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew (1:18b-25; 2:12, 13-15, 19-21, 22; 27:19) as the authorial audience. This approach requires an understanding of the social and literary character of dreams in the Greco-Roman world. Dodson describes the social function of dreams, noting that dreams constituted one form of divination in the ancient world, and looks at the theories and classification of dreams that developed in the ancient world. He then moves on to demonstrate the literary dimensions of dreams in Greco-Roman literature. This exploration of the literary representation of dreams is nuanced by considering the literary form of dreams, dreams in the Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition, the inventiveness of literary dreams, and the literary function of dreams. The dreams in the Gospel of Matthew are then analyzed in this social and literary context. It is demonstrated that Matthew's use of dreams as a literary convention corresponds to the script of dreams in other Greco-Roman narratives. This correspondence includes the form of the Matthean dreams, dreams as a motif of the birth topos (1:18b-25), the association of dreams and prophecy (1:22-23; 2:15, 23), the use of the double-dream report (2:12 and 2:13-15), and dreams as an ominous sign in relation to an individual's death (27:19). An appendix considers the Matthean transfiguration as a dream-vision report.
The Emperor of Law
Kaius Tuori
Author : Kaius Tuori
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198744450
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In the days of the Roman Empire, the emperor was considered not only the ruler of the state, but also its supreme legal authority, fulfilling the multiple roles of supreme court, legislator, and administrator. The Emperor of Law explores how the emperor came to assume the mantle of a judge, beginning with Augustus, the first emperor, and spanning the years leading up to Caracalla and the Severan dynasty. While earlier studies have attempted to explain this change either through legislation or behavior, this volume undertakes a novel analysis of the gradual expansion and elaboration of the emperor's adjudication and jurisdiction: by analyzing the process through historical narratives, it argues that the emergence of imperial adjudication was a discourse that involved not only the emperors, but also petitioners who sought their rulings, lawyers who aided them, the senatorial elite, and the Roman historians and commentators who described it. Stories of emperors settling lawsuits and demonstrating their power through law, including those depicting mad emperors engaging in violent repressions, played an important part in creating a shared conviction that the emperor was indeed the supreme judge alongside the empirical shift in the legal and political dynamic. Imperial adjudication reflected equally the growth of imperial power during the Principate and the centrality of the emperor in public life, and constitutional legitimation was thus created through the examples of previous actions--examples that historical authors did much to shape. Aimed at readers of classics, Roman law, and ancient history, The Emperor of Law offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the much debated problem of the advent of imperial supremacy in law that illuminates the importance of narrative studies to the field of legal history.
The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World
Lynn A. Struve
Author : Lynn A. Struve
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824893019
The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World by Lynn A. Struve Pdf
From the mid-sixteenth through the end of the seventeenth century, Chinese intellectuals attended more to dreams and dreaming—and in a wider array of genres—than in any other period of Chinese history. Taking the approach of cultural history, this ambitious yet accessible work aims both to describe the most salient aspects of this “dream arc” and to explain its trajectory in time through the writings, arts, and practices of well-known thinkers, religionists, litterateurs, memoirists, painters, doctors, and political figures of late Ming and early Qing times. The volume’s encompassing thesis asserts that certain associations of dreaming, grounded in the neurophysiology of the human brain at sleep—such as subjectivity, irrationality, the unbidden, lack of control, emotionality, spontaneity, the imaginal, and memory—when especially heightened by historical and cultural developments, are likely to pique interest in dreaming and generate florescences of dream-expression among intellectuals. The work thus makes a contribution to the history of how people have understood human consciousness in various times and cultures. The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World is the most substantial work in any language on the historicity of Chinese dream culture. Within Chinese studies, it will appeal to those with backgrounds in literature, religion, philosophy, political history, and the visual arts. It will also be welcomed by readers interested in comparative dream cultures, the history of consciousness, and neurohistory.
Emperor of Dreams
Donald Sidney-Fryer
Author : Donald Sidney-Fryer
Publisher : Donald M. Grant Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035566087
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Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire
Juliette Harrisson
Author : Juliette Harrisson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441176332
Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire by Juliette Harrisson Pdf
An investigation into dream reports in the history and literature of early Roman culture.
To Dream of Dreams
David M. O'Brien
Author : David M. O'Brien
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824865191
To Dream of Dreams by David M. O'Brien Pdf
Prior to World War II, State Shinto, which was centered on the worship of the emperor and Yasukuni Shrine's cult of war dead, was established in support of the government and militarism. Since the end of the Occupation, Japanese conservatives have sought to restore State Shinto's institutions even as expanded military budgets have placed Japan among the top five countries in defense spending. This timely book focuses on the struggles against government attempts to revive "the emperor system" and Japan's prewar military presence. Organized around case studies and based on extensive interviews, To Dream treats the operations of the Japanese court system thoroughly and uncovers important cases regarding religious liberty that remain little known even among specialists on modern Japanese history and society. It shows that litigation has been brought by pacifists, liberals, and others fiercely opposed to renewed militarism and to governmental support for the symbolism and institutions of State Shinto. Throughout, the author offers important information on the composition of courts involved and the attitudes of specific judges and provides translated texts of significant judicial decisions, in the process dispelling the stereotype of the Japanese as "reluctant litigants."
Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond
George T. Calofonos
Author : George T. Calofonos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317148159
Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond by George T. Calofonos Pdf
Although the actual dreaming experience of the Byzantines lies beyond our reach, the remarkable number of dream narratives in the surviving sources of the period attests to the cardinal function of dreams as vehicles of meaning, and thus affords modern scholars access to the wider cultural fabric of symbolic representations of the Byzantine world. Whether recounting real or invented dreams, the narratives serve various purposes, such as political and religious agendas, personal aspirations or simply an author’s display of literary skill. It is only in recent years that Byzantine dreaming has attracted scholarly attention, and important publications have suggested the way in which Byzantines reshaped ancient interpretative models and applied new perceptions to the functions of dreams. This book - the first collection of studies on Byzantine dreams to be published - aims to demonstrate further the importance of closely examining dreams in Byzantium in their wider historical and cultural, as well as narrative, context. Linked by this common thread, the essays offer insights into the function of dreams in hagiography, historiography, rhetoric, epistolography, and romance. They explore gender and erotic aspects of dreams; they examine cross-cultural facets of dreaming, provide new readings, and contextualize specific cases; they also look at the Greco-Roman background and Islamic influences of Byzantine dreams and their Christianization. The volume provides a broad variety of perspectives, including those of psychoanalysis and anthropology.