Dreams in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780367872335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

Janine Riviere

Opis

Dreams in Early Modern England shows the variety and complexity of the early modern English discourses on dreams, from the role of dreams and dream theory in framing religious, scientific and philosophical debates, to the way that dreams continued to offer important spiritual and supernatural guidance and lastly how ordinary peo

Spis treści

List of figures

Acknowledgements

A Note on Transcriptions

Introduction

Chapter 1: "Seasons of Sleep:" Natural Dreams, Health and the Physiology of Sleep Chapter 2: Decoding Dreams: Dreambooks and Divination

Chapter 3: "Nocturnal Whispers of the Almighty": Spiritual Dreams and the

Discernment of Spirits

Chapter 4: "The Terrors of the Night": Nightmares and Sleep Disorders

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Janine Rivière, received her PhD in History from the University of Toronto, Canada in 2013, where she has also been teaching since 2004. She has published widely on the topic of dreams and nightmares in early modern England.