A comprehensive overview of ideas about dreams and visions in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages.
This comprehensive overview of early medieval ideas about dreams and visions explores their important roles within the learned cultures of the period. It is a major contribution to discussions about the intellectual place of dreams and visions, and underlines the creative nature of early medieval engagement with authoritative texts.
1. Introduction; 2. Dreams in hagiography and other narratives; 3. Dreams and apparitions: patristic ideas and their reception; 4. The epistemology of visions: the reception of Augustine on the three visiones; Epilogue: dreams and visions in early medieval thought; Appendix: the pre-tenth-century manuscripts of the main works discussed; Bibliography; Index.