Diorasis denied. Opposition to clairvoyance in Byzantium from late Antiquity to the eleventh century. Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik|Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 65. Band|
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5 avril 2016
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Dirk Krausmüller, « Diorasis denied. Opposition to clairvoyance in Byzantium from late Antiquity to the eleventh century. Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik|Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 65. Band| », Elektronisches Publikationsportal der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschafte, ID : 10670/1.jep0nm
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This article treats the phenomenon of clairvoyance, the ability to know the thoughts of others that set holy men apart from ordinary human beings who had to make inferences from a person’s outward appearance. After a discussion of the various theories that Late Antique authors put forward in order to account for this phenomenon, it focuses on opposition to clairvoyance in seventh- to eleventh- century Byzantium. It identifies texts in which such opposition is expressed and seeks to explain why their authors took this stance.