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Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 65/2015
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Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 65, pp. 111-128, 2016/04/05
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.