Editions of the "Somniale Danielis" in medieval and humanist literary miscellanies
Valerio Cappozzo (Author), Indiana University (Degree granting institution)
This study examines the ways in which the dream manual was materially bound together with collections of early Italian visionary literature. The Somniale Danielis was a widely circulated dream manual in the late Middle Ages. It guided the interpretation of dreams and also served as an important tool in the understanding of medieval literary dreams. Thus it is an important aid in the identification and description of traditional dream topoi. The entries of the dreambook represent a framework within which medieval vision poetry develops its network of images and motifs. In a larger sense, the medieval miscellany often provides us insights into the "utility" of common texts at diverse levels of reception and use. These usually thematic collections made by copyists at the request of a reader or a user not only supply us with little-known texts excluded from codices arranged by author or genre, but also give us a view into how different cultures associated diverse texts
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2012
Indiana University ; ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, [Bloomington, Indiana], Ann Arbor, 2012