General Index
Achilles Tatius
321
Aëtius of Amida
4, 40
Ā’isha
213–214
Al-Bukhārī
211n, 213
Al-Hakīm Al-Tirmidhī
212, 213
Al-Nadīm
45–46
Al-Qāyinī, Abū Ja’far
213–214
Al-Ṭabarī
209, 220–222
alchemy
43
Alexander the Great
119
Alexandria
111, 126, 190, 205
Ammianus Marcellinus
111–113
Anastasius, emp.
97–107, 111, 185n, 189, 190n, 202, 216
Anastasius of Sinai
43–45, 199, 309
Andrew of Crete
293–295, 300–308
Andronikos Zarides
323
Anonymus Valesianus
6, 99–101, 106–107
Antioch
104, 162–172, 176, 190, 199, 215
Antony the Great
22, 298
Apocalypse of John
147–148, 296
apocalyptic
6–7, 118–123, 128, 131–133, 174, 210n, 218
Apophthegmata patrum
19n
Arab
208, 219n, 221–222, 260
Arabic
2, 4, 35, 41, 42, 45–46, 208, 209, 212, 213n, 220n
Aristotle
4, 24n, 36, 42, 65n, 83n, 231
Aristotelian
38, 86, 212
Armenia
6, 11, 160, 164, 167
Armenians
160–163, 166–173
independence of
7, 164, 172, 176
Church
168, 173
language
6, 46, 160, 161n, 219n
map of
164
Armilos
6, 129–130
Artemidorus
17, 85, 208n
Athanasius of Alexandria
84–85, 281n, 294, 296–297, 303, 309
Attaleiates, Michael
232–234
Augustine of Hippo
91n
Barsanuphius
18n
Basil I, emp.
143, 185n, 194–197
Basil II, emp.
176, 193nn, 228
Basil of Casearea/the Great
139, 184n, 188, 243, 297
Basilakes, Nikephoros
162n, 167–168, 174n
beauty
59–61, 233, 317, 326
physical
59, 304, 305n, 316, 320, 327, 336
spiritual
59, 302, 305
Bocchoris the Just
58
bride
297, 319
Callinicus
110–111
Calofonos, G. T.
8n, 122n, 143n, 183, 185, 189–190, 194, 208n, 209, 211, 215–217, 218n
Cassian, John
4, 20–22, 24–25, 29
Cassius Dio
112
Cedrenus see Kedrenos
Chadiga
190, 205
Chalcedon, Council of
39, 106, 190, 206n, 215
Chalcedonian
106, 162, 168, 215
Neochalcedonian
45
Non-Chalcedonian
106, 169
Chonai
267–268, 281
Choniates, Niketas
160n–165, 168–169, 170n–173n
Christ see Jesus Christ and Logos
Christological
106, 215n
chronicles
(
historiography)
)
158–160, 168–170
annalistic
217n, 220
Byzantine
102, 181–190, 215–219, 232
Islamic
208, 210, 212, 219–222
universal
7
Chronicon Paschale
102, 104
chronography
209, 212, 215, 222
Church of the East
41, 45
Cicero
59n
Cilicia
7, 161–167, 169–171, 173–176
Claudian
6, 111n, 112
Clement of Alexandria
3–5, 11, 22, 57–70, 73–76
cognition
4, 11, 22, 43, 48, 49
cognitive science
18–19, 25–28, 29–30, 49
Collectio Avellana
104n
Colossae
267–268, 272, 278, 281
communion
20–21, 29, 254n, 258, 300, 302, 310, 317, 322
Constans II, emp.
6, 119, 122n, 131–132, 216–217
Constantine V (Kopronymos), emp.
190
Constantine VII, emp. (Porphyrogenitus)
103, 185n, 192
Constantine VIII, emp.
185n, 193n
Constantinople
2, 92, 100, 104, 106–107, 109, 111, 119, 125, 131, 162–163, 165, 171, 175, 187, 189n, 190, 194–195, 249, 255, 259, 271a, 318, 329
Constantius II, emp.
112, 187
Corippus
6, 99, 107–111
court, imperial
6, 99–102, 107–111, 113, 115, 121, 124, 132, 140n, 165, 173–175, 234, 245, 257, 329
Cross, the
7, 175, 183n, 184, 186–187, 189n, 190, 202, 203, 216, 219, 241–242n, 267, 218
Crusade, First
161–163
Crusade, Second
169n
Cyril of Alexandria
204, 255–256, 258
daydreams
(
dreams, visions
)
5, 58, 60, 64–66, 67, 75
desire
(
eros, pothos
)
58–59, 64–66, 69n, 71, 73n, 136, 315, 319
erotic
4, 10, 18, 22, 25, 57–59, 71, 145, 296, 317–318, 321–322, 324, 326–328, 335–337
homoerotic
7, 137–156, 316
repression of
3, 25–26, 28, 29n, 58
suppression of
4, 26–30
Diogenes of Oinanda
267n
Dionysius the Areopagite
5, 73–74, 300n, 301n
disaster(s)
6, 124, 125, 128, 160
dream (key) manuals
2, 8, 85, 208–209
dreams
(
daydreams, nightmares, visions
)
1–11, 17–19, 25–28, 30, 44, 47, 57–75, 81–86, 89, 90–91, 99, 111–115, 119, 122, 142–145, 208–212, 230, 293–300
angelic
68n, 131, 202, 211, 213, 222, 242, 271, 298
demonic
2, 58, 70, 75, 85, 198, 211, 212, 297–298
dynastic
99–111
erotic/sexual
2n–3, 4, 10, 17–30, 57–58, 72n, 150
homoerotic
3, 7, 10, 154–156
god-sent
(
revelation
)
57, 66, 85, 189, 211–212
mantic
61n, 210, 212
monastic
3, 17–30, 122, 294, 297
portentous see dreams, prophetic; portent(s)
prophetic
2, 5, 8, 68, 83–86, 90, 123–130, 210–212, 216, 294n
dynasty
6–7, 105–106, 112, 128, 212, 220
Heraclian
118–119, 123, 131–132
Macedonian
7
Konstantinos VII, Porphyrogennetos
earthquake(s)
8, 185, 190, 194, 204
Egypt
3, 18–20, 23, 127, 215, 219n, 221–222, 233, 244, 253, 255
emissions, nocturnal
17–18, 21–23, 25, 29
emperor(s)
2–3, 6–7, 11, 69, 85, 99–115, 118–119, 123–125, 127, 132, 136–137, 139–140, 145, 150, 152–153, 161–162, 165, 166n, 168–176, 184n, 185n, 188, 190–197, 202–206, 208, 216–219, 228–235, 241, 249n, 258n, 267, 274n
epiphanies
269–272, 286
Eros/eros
(
desire, pothos
)
60–62, 66n, 138, 147, 149, 155, 316–317, 323, 329, 336
eschatological
10, 120–121, 294, 300, 310
eschaton
121, 295, 300, 309
Eucharist
(
see communion
)
Eudoxia, empress
253–254, 257–258, 260
Eumathios Makrembolites
329
Euphemia, st
190
Eusebius of Caesarea
69–70, 75, 281n
Evagrius of Pontus
2, 4–5, 11, 18n, 22n, 23, 29n, 67, 70–75, 85, 297
Evagrius Scholasticus
101, 102n, 104nn, 105n, 106, 109, 111, 188
fantasy/fantasies
3, 10, 51, 58, 67, 71–73, 230, 324, 326, 336
erotic/sexual
10, 58, 69–72, 316, 318, 330
Franks
160–162, 173
Freud, S.
3, 17, 25–26, 28, 210, 326n
friendship
7, 136, 149, 154
Gabriel, archangel
190, 203, 205, 213, 217, 222, 278
Galen
4, 36–37, 39n, 40n, 41n, 46n, 48
Gaza
3, 211
gender
10, 319
genre
3, 6, 8, 107, 120–122, 136–137, 139, 154, 208–209, 212, 227, 230n, 235, 245, 323
George Lakapenos
323
George of Alexandria
9, 256, 259nn, 260nn
George of Pisidia
119
Great Kanon
294–296, 299–310
Gregory, exarch of Carthage
6, 122n, 131
Gregory of Nazianzus
284n, 299n, 336n
Gregory of Nyssa
3, 46, 281n, 284n, 297, 310, 322
Gregory Palamas
91–92
Gregory the Priest
161, 164n, 166n, 171–173
hagiography
(
saints, Lives of
)
1–2, 8–9, 19–20, 85, 128, 140n, 195, 208–215, 222, 250, 256nn–260, 277n, 285, 298, 315n, 318n, 330
healing
267, 268, 270, 273–275, 277–279, 282–283, 286
Hellenists
22n, 57, 266, 268n
Heraclius, emp.
118–119, 123–124, 129–131, 205, 219
Herodias
257, 258n
Hesychius, priest
23n
Hippocrates
36, 43n
historiography
(
chronicles
)
123, 160, 211–212, 215, 222, 227–228, 230–234, 304, 306
Homer
57n, 84, 141–143, 172–173, 233, 272
homoerotic
(
homosexual
)
2–3, 7, 10, 136–137, 140, 143, 319
homophobia
7, 154
homosexuality
(
homoerotic, sex/sexual
)
316
Ḥunayn ibn Ishāq
41–42, 45–46
hymns/hymnography
1–3, 9–11, 129–130, 260n, 286n, 293n, 295, 299, 301–308, 315–320, 322, 324–329, 331–335
Iamblichus, philosopher
49n, 231
Ibn al-Adim
172n, 173
Ibn al-Athir
162n, 163n, 167, 172n, 173, 176
Ibn al-Nadim
45
icon (s)
11, 85, 130, 169, 190, 205, 242, 243n, 260, 265, 276, 301, 323
acheiropoieta
85
iconoclasm
48, 189–190, 250, 260, 269n, 301
image/imagery
5, 60, 295
dream
(
dreams
)
3, 22n, 64n, 84, 86, 90–91, 210, 214, 293n
holy
(
icons)
11, 204–205, 300–305
literary
145, 147–149, 174, 297–298, 301, 319
mental
18, 22, 64n, 72–74, 90–91, 293, 301n
of God
276n, 303, 305
typological
301, 303–304
imagination
1–11, 17, 29, 35–44, 46–49, 68, 71, 73–75, 82–83, 86, 90, 217–218, 228, 250, 254, 261, 301n, 318, 320, 324, 330, 337
Italikos, Matthew
162n, 163n, 166n, 167, 170n, 171, 174n, 175n, 176n
Jerusalem
92, 129–130, 160–162, 171, 174, 176, 187, 202–203, 221
Jesus Christ Logos
10, 20, 68, 126, 215, 222, 234, 269, 274n
crucifixion of
10, 310
incarnation of
10, 39, 69, 184, 307, 310, 317, 322, 337
resurrection of
10, 18, 44, 58, 68, 187, 293, 310
John Chrysostom
9, 253–261, 303, 307n
Johannite schism
249–250, 253–256, 258, 260
John Climacus
25, 85, 298
John Geometres
322
John II Komnenos, emp.
7, 161–176
John of Damascus
4, 35, 44n, 45–49, 261, 293n, 301, 310
John of Dara
46
John Stobaeus
59n
John the Theologian
189, 280n, 281–282
Julian the Apostate, emp.
8, 112–113, 142, 184n, 186, 187–188, 267, 269n, 283–285
Jupiter Optimus Maximus
111
Justin I, emp.
99, 101–107, 109n, 111, 189, 216
Justin II, emp.
99, 107–111, 115
Justinian I, emp.
103, 105, 107–110, 114, 189, 202
Kedrenos, George
102, 183, 185–187, 192, 196–206, 217n
Khalifa ibn Khayyat
220
Kinnamos
162n, 163n, 165n, 166n, 167n, 169–175
Konstantinos VII, Porphyrogennetos, emp.
7, 103, 136–155, 192
Kozeṙn, Yovhannēs
160, 170, 172–176
letters
7, 45, 82, 85, 104n, 126, 130, 136–157, 168–169, 210, 218, 233, 254–255, 258, 274, 296–297, 319
liturgy
9–11, 129–130, 295
Byzantine
260n, 284, 294–296, 299–304, 306–310
liturgical hymns
—
see hymns
Leo V, emp.
185n, 208
Leo VI, emp.
186n
Logos Jesus Christ
10, 57, 62–64, 73n, 92, 307
Longinus
301n
Longinus, brother of Zeno
105n
Magdalino, P.
8n, 120n, 122n, 165n, 167, 168n, 170n, 175n, 183–185, 192, 194–195, 197, 208n
Malalas, John
102, 104, 183, 184, 186, 187–190, 194, 197, 200–201, 216, 271nn
Marcellinus Comes
104n
Marcian
104n, 112–113, 184n, 188–190, 196
Marinus
36n
Mark, monk
23–24
marriage
10, 105, 164, 193, 319, 324, 329
Mattʿēos UṙhayecʿI see Matthew of Edessa
Matthew of Edessa
160–162, 163n, 165n, 166n, 170–176
Maurice, emp.
6, 118, 119, 123–128, 190n, 202, 204–205, 219
Maximus (the) Confessor
5–6, 38, 45, 46n, 72–76, 119, 122–123, 131–133, 295n, 299, 300n, 303, 322
medicine
35, 37, 41, 43
Meletius the Monk
46
memory
1–4, 10, 72–74, 277n
construction of
123, 249–261
cultural
9, 189, 250, 303
liturgical
10, 295
location of
35–49
manipulation of
9, 189, 249
sacred
11, 295, 301
Messiah, the
6, 119, 123, 129–131, 319n
Michael III, emp.
143, 185n, 193, 218n
Michael IV, emp.
185n, 192n, 193n, 194n, 234
Michael, archangel
127, 268–279, 283
Michael the Syrian
163n, 169, 171n, 216n
Miskawayh
42
monastic(ism)
(
dreams, monastic
)
3–4, 10–11, 18–19, 21–22, 25, 28–30, 72, 122, 240, 259, 294, 297, 316, 318, 322, 329, 330n, 337
monk(s)
17–25, 29–30, 46, 70, 84, 91, 125, 190, 193, 196, 199, 200, 205, 215, 217, 238n, 243, 261, 298, 318–319, 329
Moral Foundations Theory
250–253
Moschus, John
215
Moses bar Kepha
46
Muhammad
190, 209n, 212–214, 217, 222
Nemesius of Emesa
35, 38–39, 46, 48, 49n, 72
Neoplatonism
(
Platonism)
4, 44, 49, 57n, 70, 83–84, 86, 91, 243n
Nero, emp.
111, 112n
Nerses of Lampron
168–169
Nicephorus Gregoras
5, 83, 85, 87–89
Nicholas Cabasilas
306
Nietzsche, F.
92
Niketas Choniates: see Choniates, Niketas
Niketas Stethatos
315n, 317–318, 328n
Nikolaos Mystikos
139
nightmare(s)
72n, 210–211, 259
novels, Byzantine
315, 321–322, 329–330, 337
Odo of Deuil
169
Orderic Vitalis
163n, 170n
Origen of Alexandria
3, 5, 22–23, 43n, 57–58, 67–70, 73, 75, 298, 322, 336n
Origenism
38, 249n
pagan(s)
9–10, 57, 68–70, 85, 187, 211n, 214n, 218, 242n, 260n, 267, 269n, 271n, 272, 274, 278–280, 284, 286
Palaiologan
82–91, 322
Palestine
45, 19, 218
Palladius
4, 11, 19–20, 22, 255n, 256–257, 259
panegyric
6, 107, 230, 233
Persia/Persian
118–119, 123, 129–130, 160–161, 163, 172, 174–175, 212–213, 215, 218–219, 260
Philippikos, emp.
190, 196, 203
philosopher(s)
2–5, 8, 11, 42–43, 45, 61n, 66–67, 82, 102, 202, 209, 216, 231, 233, 245, 328n
philosophy
(
Aristotelian, Neoplatonism, Platonism, Stoic
)
8, 42–43, 49, 62, 83, 86–87, 123, 231–232, 235–236, 239n, 243–245, 251, 293
Philostorgius
41
Phokas (Phocas), emp.
118–119, 123–125, 128, 133, 205, 219, 234
Photios (Photius)
39n, 41, 329
pilgrim(s)
214, 265, 284, 286
Plato/Platonism
(
Neoplatonism
)
5, 11, 35–36, 38, 57–64, 66–71, 73–76, 83–87n, 91, 212, 231, 267n, 295, 297
Plotinus, philosopher
38, 44–45, 231
Plutarch
61n, 62
pneuma
5, 37, 39–40, 41n, 47–49
poem(s)/poetry
(
hymn(s)
)
2, 10–111, 121, 129–130, 144–147, 150, 152–153, 174–175, 294–295, 299, 301, 303, 317–319, 322n, 325–326, 328n, 329–330
Porphyry, philosopher
38n, 44n, 68n, 231
portent(s)
3, 7–8, 111–112, 115, 193, 219–220
Posidonius of Byzantium
40–42
pothos
315, 317, 321–323, 329
Proclus, philosopher
36n, 231
Procopius
101n, 102n, 103, 106, 112–114, 188
Prodromos, Theodore
163n, 170n, 174–175, 321, 323–324, 329, 331
prophecy
(
dreams, prophetic
)
7, 47, 70, 120, 122–127, 131–132, 160–162, 170, 172–176, 197–198, 200, 203, 211, 227, 229, 280, 282, 286
prophet(s)
190, 203, 206, 209–211, 213–214, 217, 220–222, 229n
Psellos, Michael
2–3, 8, 227–245, 329
Pseudo-Clementines
57, 59
Pseudo-Martyrius
253–257, 259–260
Pseudo-Methodius
174n
Pseudo-Nicephorus, patriarch
85
Pseudo-Symeon
186, 196, 199, 200
purity
4, 20, 25, 30, 69
Qusṭā ibn Lūqā
41–42, 45
Quintilian
64n, 274n
revelation, divine
(
dreams, god-sent; epiphanies; visions, divine
)
63–64, 67–68, 115, 121–122, 125–126, 133, 204, 212–213, 217, 277, 294, 296
Romanos the Melodist
300n, 307
Romanos I Lekapenos, emp.
139
Romanos II, emp.
140, 208n
Romanos IV Diogenes, emp.
175
romance/romantic
10, 316, 318, 321, 323, 327, 329–330, 331–332, 336–337
Rome
92, 129, 187, 300n
Church of
215, 257n, 258n
saint(s)
8–9, 11, 44, 85, 125, 128, 189, 198, 208, 211, 214–215, 222, 236n, 256–257, 260, 293n, 294n, 297, 304, 310, 323
Lives of
(
hagiography
)
2, 9, 85, 128, 214n, 218, 257, 298, 315n, 318n, 330
sanctuary
10, 265–268, 275, 277, 285
Sassanids
118
Schism, Johannite
9, 249–250, 253, 260
Seneca
29n, 113
Septimius Severus, emp.
112
sex/sexual
(
erotic, homosexual
)
4–5, 10, 18–22, 26–30, 57–58, 66n, 69–70, 75, 136–140, 144, 150–154, 316, 318–319, 321n, 330
Sextus Empiricus
59n
shrine(s)
9, 11, 111, 214, 242n, 270, 281, 301
Skylitzes, John
183, 185, 186–187, 192–201, 232–234
Smbat Sparapet
163n, 164n, 165n, 166n, 173n
Socrates, philosopher
53, 58–61, 64–67
Socrates scholasticus
256–259
soldiers
8, 103, 106, 112n, 166, 188, 204, 208, 232
Souda
140–142, 149–150
soul
5, 18–24, 35–38, 42–49, 57–66, 68–74, 82–84, 86–91, 146–148, 151–153, 156–157, 203, 235, 237, 239–240, 244, 293–294, 299, 302–309, 316, 319, 324, 327–328, 331, 334
indivisible
49
irrational
47, 61n, 73n, 237
parts of
23, 36, 49, 70, 84
rational
37, 45, 61n, 64–65, 73n
sleeping
24n, 43–44, 84n, 297, 308
Sozomen
19n, 256n, 257nn, 258–259
spring, healing
268–269, 274–275, 278–279, 286
Stephanus of Alexandria/Athens
42–43
Stoic(s)
22–23, 36, 57–59, 61n, 62, 65–66, 69–70
Suetonius
111–112
Sufi(s)
212–214
supernatural
8–9, 85–86, 90–91, 121–122, 128, 133, 142, 185, 187, 299, 303
Symeon Logothete
184n, 196
Symeon the New Theologian
315–337
Synesius of Cyrene
2–3, 5, 11, 82–91
Syria(n)
38, 45–46, 162, 163n, 166n, 170–172, 175, 216
Syriac
45–46, 128, 162, 219
temple(s)
9, 129, 184, 202, 271
Tarasios, patriarch
191
Theodore of Trimithus
256–260
Theodore Prodromos see Prodromos, Theodore
Theodore the Stoudite
316n, 322
Theodoros of Kyzikos
136, 139–141, 143–147, 150–156
Theophanes Confessor
6, 102, 111n, 183–184, 186, 188–191, 194, 196, 2o1, 209, 216–218, 219n, 221–222
Theophanes Continuatus
122n, 140n, 143, 194, 208n, 218
Theophilus of Alexandria
9, 254–255, 257–259
Theophilus of Edessa
216, 219n
Theophylact Simocatta
6, 119, 122n, 123–128, 131, 133, 218–219
Thessalonica/Thessaloniki
37, 85, 190n, 202, 217
treatises
2, 4, 36, 46, 111, 317
on dreams
5, 82–85, 87–91
Turkey
265
Turks
160–163, 167, 173–174, 176
Tzetzes, John
174n
Usama Ibn-Munqidh
175n
Valens, emp.
41, 202
Valentinian, emp.
41, 184n, 188
Valentinian III, emp.
109n
vaticinia ex eventu
119–125, 127–129, 131, 210n, 218
ventricle theory
37, 39n, 40, 42, 46–48, 50–51
vermis
41n, 42n, 50–51
Vespasian, emp.
111
visions
(
daydreams, dreams
)
5, 7–9, 11, 60, 63–65, 82–85, 227–229, 237, 242, 245, 258, 279, 286, 293–297, 299
angelic
68n, 121, 129–131, 213, 216–217, 270, 279–280, 282–283
divine
62–64, 82, 92, 184–187, 189–190, 200, 203–205, 215–216, 266
nocturnal
63–64, 82, 101, 103, 108, 112, 126, 191, 202, 204, 270, 279, 286, 299
oneiric
84–85, 141–142, 187
prophetic
5–7, 68, 91, 99, 102, 111–112, 123, 188–189, 191–192, 206, 294n
waking
7, 68, 112, 136, 140–143, 149–151, 154–155, 193, 196, 203–204, 213, 271, 293, 295, 297, 299
William of Tyre
162n, 163n, 164n, 165–166, 170–171, 174nn
wisdom
8, 62, 66, 76, 108, 155, 212, 231, 244, 274, 321
worship
10, 130, 145, 169, 198, 214, 260, 269, 278, 284, 295, 322, 326, 336
Xenophon
59n, 84n
yetzer hara
57, 59, 75
Zerubbabel
6, 119, 123, 129–133
Zeus
61n, 268, 274, 276n, 279, 286,