Dreaming in the Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Kruger, Steven F.

Title
Dreaming in the Middle Ages

Published
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Physical Description
xii, 254 pp.

Description
Analyzes medieval theory of dreams, tracing development from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages. In theory, in literature, and in life, dreams were regarded as both potentially deceptive and potentially illuminating. The work concentrates on theorists of dreams and interpretation of real-life dreams but comments on and provides background for literary dream visions, including Chaucer's.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.