Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE

by Bronwen Neil

Why did dreams matter to Jews, Byzantine Christians, and Muslims in the first millennium? Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400 - 1000 CE shows how the ability to interpret dreams universally attracted power and influence in the first millennium. In a time when prophetic dreams were viewed as God's intervention in human history, male and female prophets wielded was unparalleled power in imperial courts, military camps, and religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198871147
• ISBN13: 9780198871149
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"