Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt
Author: Bronwen Neil
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Published: 2019
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ISBN-13: 9781108740432
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Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt
Author: Bronwen Neil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-25
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1108481183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the significance of dreams in early Christian Egypt, using sources from Philo and Origen to Athanasius and early monks.
Spiritual Direction As a Medical Art in Early Christian Monasticism
Author: JONATHAN L. ZECHER
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-10-06
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0198854137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat expectations did the women and men living in early monastic communities carry into relationships of obedience and advice? What did they hope to achieve through confession and discipline? To explore these questions, this study shows how several early Christian writers applied the logic, knowledge, and practices of Galenic medicine to develop their own practices of spiritual direction. Evagrius reads dream images as diagnostic indicators of the soul's state. John Cassian crafts a nosology of the soul using lists of passions while diagnosing the causes of wet dreams. Basil of Caesarea pits the spiritual director against the physician in a competition over diagnostic expertise. John Climacus crafts pathologies of passions through demonic family trees, while equipping his spiritual director with a physician's toolkit and imagining the monastic space as a vast clinic. These different appropriations of medical logic and metaphors not only show us the thought-world of late antique monasticism, but they would also have decisive consequences for generations of Christian subjects who would learn to see themselves as sick or well, patients or healers, within monastic communities.
Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE
Author: Bronwen Neil
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-01-14
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0198871147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did dreams matter to Jews, Byzantine Christians, and Muslims in the first millennium? Bronwen Neil shows how the three faiths took the pagan practice of divining the future from dreams and melded it with their own scriptural traditions to produce a novel and rich culture of dream interpretation.
Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations
Author: Doru Costache
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-07-15
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 900446834X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, Costache endeavours to map the world as it was understood and experienced by the early Christians. Progressing from initial fears, they came to adopt a more positive view of the world through successive shifts of perception. This did not happen overnight. Tracing these shifts, Costache considers the world of the early Christians through an interdisciplinary lens, revealing its meaningful complexity. He demonstrates that the early Christian worldview developed at the nexus of several perspectives. What facilitated this process was above all the experience of contemplating nature. When accompanied by genuine personal transformation, natural contemplation fostered the theological interpretation of the world as it had been known to the ancients.
Knowing God in Light
Author: Nichifor Tănase, Marius Portaru, Daniel Lemeni
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published:
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 3643916639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fall of Communism in Eastern Europe opened up a new future—for theology, too, not least in Romania, perhaps of all Orthodox nations the most open to the West. Young Romanian Orthodox theologians seized the opportunity to study and research in the West, availing themselves of mentors and resources hitherto denied them; some have settled in the West, others returned home. This welcome volume displays a theological revival as young Romanian theologians draw on tradition and address new problems. We can discern here a welcome confidence in the Orthodox tradition, no longer on the defensive nor concerned to mark itself off from the theology of the ‘West’. It is a ‘generous Orthodoxy’ (a term that has been used of the theological approach of the late Metropolitan Kallistos), ready to share its treasures with other Christians and eager to learn from them and engage with them.
Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium
Author: Bronwen Neil
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-20
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9004375716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of studies on Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium covers four main themes: the place of dreams, imagination and memory in the Byzantine philosophical tradition; the political uses of prophetic dreams and visions in imperial contexts; the appearance and manipulation of dreams and memory in Byzantine poetry and histories, and changing commemorations of the saints over time in art, epigraphy and literature. These studies reveal 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. This volume of Byzantina Australiensia brings together the work of senior and early career scholars from Australia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand and the United States.
Storyworlds in Short Narratives
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-10-17
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9004707352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis interdisciplinary and comparative volume offers a systematic approach to the early Greek tale. Bringing similarities and differences between ancient Greek and early Byzantine tales to the fore, this volume thus creates new knowledge in the fields of classics, medieval studies, and literary studies. Its chapters discuss the theory and poetics of tales, the art of storytelling, inherent features of the tale, and the arrangement, types, and characteristics of tales in collections. The chapter authors base their approaches on a rich variety of texts and writers that are here discussed for the first time in one volume. Contributors are: Andria Andreou, Stavroula Constantinou, Julia Doroszewska, Christian Høgel, Markéta Kulhánková, Ingela Nilsson, Nicolò Sassi, and Sophia Xenophontos.
Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity
Author: Pauline Allen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-10
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 1316510131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction to the nature, function, production and dissemination of Late Antique literary letters and their importance for their society.
Prognostication in the Medieval World
Author: Matthias Heiduk
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-11-09
Total Pages: 1039
ISBN-13: 3110499770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo opposing views of the future in the Middle Ages dominate recent historical scholarship. According to one opinion, medieval societies were expecting the near end of the world and therefore had no concept of the future. According to the other opinion, the expectation of the near end created a drive to change the world for the better and thus for innovation. Close inspection of the history of prognostication reveals the continuous attempts and multifold methods to recognize and interpret God’s will, the prodigies of nature, and the patterns of time. That proves, on the one hand, the constant human uncertainty facing the contingencies of the future. On the other hand, it demonstrates the firm believe during the Middle Ages in a future which could be shaped and even manipulated. The handbook provides the first overview of current historical research on medieval prognostication. It considers the entangled influences and transmissions between Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and non-monotheistic societies during the period from a wide range of perspectives. An international team of 63 renowned authors from about a dozen different academic disciplines contributed to this comprehensive overview.
