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Diorasis denied. Opposition to clairvoyance in Byzantium from late Antiquity to the eleventh century

    Dirk Krausmüller

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 65, pp. 111-128, 2016/04/05

doi: 10.1553/joeb65s111

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doi:10.1553/joeb65s111


Abstract

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.