Sharon Dale wrote:
>I am not familiar with these "dream books" and as an art-historian, I should
be. Can someone post any relevant bibliography?
some could, surely.
i can't.
there is a shadow of an echo of a memory of an extensive, multi-volume
collection of excerpts from sources concerning "dreams/visions" (a distinction
without a difference in most medieval sources, apparently) which i consulted a
few years ago, back when i had the crazy idea that medieval figurative art
was, above all and exclusively, visionary.
i was thinking that it was compiled by Julius von Schlosser (it *did*
have a German title, i remember, and resembled his other source collections in
form) and was limited to *English* sources (no accounting for taste);
but the L. of C. doesn't seem to have an appropriate title by that
indefatigable source collector, so that looks like a dead end... maybe
someone else has a memory. the copy i was using at I.U. was a recent (i.e.,
60's or early 70's) reprint, i believe.
meanwhile, the LoC catalogue search turned up this interesting item,
which i've not seen:
Kamphausen, Hans Joachim. _Traum und Vision in der lateinischen Poesie
der Karolingerzeit._ Bern: Herbert Lang; Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 1975.
LC Call No.: PA8065.D73K3 1975
slight chance this will help, but the thing *was* quite a piece of work, well
worth trying to track down...
best from here,
christopher
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