Abstract:The Ugly Truth". Cahus' Dream Revisited The aim of this paper is to propose an analysis of the Cahus' Dream, a well known episode of the Perlesvaus, Arthurian romance from the 13 th century, within the context of the medieval dream theories. Inspired mostly by Macrobius' Commentary on the Dream of Scipio-fo cusing on the divinatory (or deceptive/ illusory) role of dreams-as well as by Tertullian's and Augustine's Christian refl ections on the relations between the soul and the sleeping body, these theories per… Show more
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