Greek incubation
The literary background of the collections
The Christian incubation saints: their cult sites and their miracle rounds
Material sources
The oral tradition in the miracles
The hagiographers: who makes the incubation stories?
Compositional structure in the miracle collections
Narrative techniques and variants of the dream stories
Doctors and miracles: doctors and medicine in Early Christianity and Byzantium
Mirroring society and its beliefs: sinners, pagans, Jews, heretics, non-Christians in terms of illness and cure.