Dreams and Visions: An Interdisciplinary Enquiry

Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 8
Illustration section......Page 10
Introduction: Dreams and Visions Nancy van Deusen......Page 54
Daniel the Dreamer, Daniel the Dream-Reader Meg Worley......Page 62
Cassiodorus and Theoderic: A Vision of Reviving Falling Cities Birgitta Lindros Wohl......Page 70
The Lament and Augustine: Visions of Disintegration and Transformation Nancy van Deusen......Page 84
In the Beginning: Theories and Images of Creation in Northern Europe in the Twelfth Century Conrad Rudolph......Page 100
Visions of Verbum Incarnatum: Augustinian Homiletics and English Christmas Sermons, 900–1700 Wendy Furman-Adams......Page 152
Plotinian Image and the Medieval Representation of  Divinity Ann R. Meyer......Page 174
St. Bonaventure's "Doctrine of Illumination": An Artifact of Modernity Wendy Petersen Boring......Page 190
Dreams, Visions, and Nightmares in Islam: From the Prophet Muhammad to the Fundamentalist Mindset Tamara Albertini......Page 220
The Vision of Heaven and Knowledge in Castilian Literature: From Alfonso X to Alfonso de la Torre Ana M. Montero......Page 236
The Vulgate Grail Michael Murrin......Page 262
A Vision of Poverty: Remembering the Passion and the Christian Ideal in the Imagery of the Observant Franciscans Virginia K. Henderson......Page 280
Dream and Vision in Shakespeare's Plays David Bevington......Page 312
Dreams, Visions, and Delusions: Madness in Shakespeare J. Harold Ellens......Page 334
Vision in the Eye of the Beholder: Translation or Transformation Eolene M. Boyd-MacMillan......Page 352
Beyond Three: Jung, Anthropology and Number John N. Crossley......Page 366
A Vision of Dwarfs Joanna Woods-Marsden......Page 378
The Dawes Act of 1887: A Dream of "Civilizing the Savages" that became a Nightmare for Native Americans Robert W. Hanning......Page 392
Index......Page 420