List of Contributors -- Illustration section -- 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 Muhammad 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 -- 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.