The Politics of Dreaming in the Carolingian Empire

by Paul Edward Dutton

Book Overview

Between the reigns of Charlemagne and Charles the Fat, Europe underwent a series of alarming and unsettling changes. Civil war broke out, royal authority was divided, and the brightest of men and women began to entertain nightmarish thoughts of the corruption and collapse of their world.

Amidst the ruin of their shaken and shattered assumptions, Carolingian intellectuals wrote down a series of dream texts. The Carolingian oneiric record, though...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080321653X
• ISBN13: 9780803216532
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"