Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / N. Van Deusen -- Introduction: Dreams And Visions / Nancy Van Deusen -- Daniel The Dreamer, Daniel The Dream-Reader / Meg Worley -- Cassiodorus And Theoderic: A Vision Of Reviving Falling Cities / Birgitta Lindros Wohl -- The Lament And Augustine: Visions Of Disintegration And Transformation / Nancy Van Deusen -- In The Beginning: Theories And Images Of Creation In Northern Europe In The Twelfth Century / Conrad Rudolph -- Visions Of Verbum Incarnatum: Augustinian Homiletics And English Christmas Sermons, 900–1700 / Wendy Furman-Adams -- Plotinian Image And The Medieval Representation Of Divinity / Ann R. Meyer -- St. Bonaventure’s \'Doctrine Of Illumination\': An Artifact Of Modernity / Wendy Petersen Boring -- Dreams, Visions, and Nightmares in Islam: From the Prophet Muḥ̣̣ammad to the Fundamentalist Mindset / Tamara Albertini -- The Vision Of Heaven And Knowledge In Castilian Literature: From Alfonso X To Alfonso De La Torre / Ana M. Montero -- The Vulgate Grail Michael Murrin / N. Van Deusen -- A Vision Of Poverty: Remembering The Passion And The Christian Ideal In The Imagery Of The Observant Franciscans / Virginia K. Henderson -- Dream And Vision In Shakespeare’s Plays / David Bevington -- Dreams, Visions, And Delusions: Madness In Shakespeare / J. Harold Ellens -- Vision In The Eye Of The Beholder: Translation Or Transformation / Eolene M. Boyd-MacMillan -- Beyond Three: Jung, Anthropology And Number / John N. Crossley -- A Vision Of Dwarfs / Joanna Woods-Marsden -- The Dawes Act Of 1887: A Dream Of \'Civilizing The Savages\' That Became A Nightmare For Native Americans / Robert W. Hanning -- Index / N. Van Deusen.

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Dreams and Visions have constituted an important topic and point of departure in the past; but also continue to play a present role in literature, political thought, economic theory, and in the arts. An essential historical topos, Dreams and Visions --the second in a series that projects past issues into the present--brings significant contributions from an interdisciplinary spectrum of standpoints in order to discover fresh insights. Perhaps this is the essence, in any case, of \'Vision\'--to discover new, fresh ways of conceptualizing a problem, topic, or historical enquiry, which is the goal of this volume. Contributors are Tamara Albertini, David Bevington, Eolene M. Boyd-MacMillan, John N. Crossley, J. Harold Ellens, Wendy Furman-Adams, Robert W. Hanning, Virginia K. Henderson, Birgitta Lindros Wohl, Ann R. Meyer, Ana M. Montero, Michael Murrin, Wendy Petersen Boring, Conrad Rudolph, Nancy Van Deusen, Joanna Woods-Marsden, and Meg Worley.