Dreaming in the Middle Ages
Medieval attitudes toward dreaming encompassed both deep fascination and strong suspicion. In Dreaming in the Middle Ages, Steven Kruger explores the ambivalence of the medieval dream through a close examination of philosophical, legal, and theological writings, as well as literary and autobiographical works. To place the medieval dream in its historical and cultural context, Kruger studies the development of theories of dreaming from late-antique Neoplatonic and patristic writers to the...
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Stephen Kruger considers previously neglected material and arrives at a new understanding of this literary genre, and of medieval attitudes to dreaming in general.
AcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: modern and medieval dreams11Dreambooks and their audiences72The doubleness and middleness of dreams173The patristic dream354From the fourth to the twelfth century575Aristotle and the late-medieval dream836Dreams and fiction1237Dreams and life150Notes166Bibliography225Index251
