Alessandro Arcangeli

Renaissance Dream Cultures

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the dream cultures of the European long sixteenth century, with a focus on Italian sources, reflections and debates on the nature and value of dreams, and frameworks of interpretation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781032246710
• ISBN-10: 1032246715
• Artikelnr.: 70149496

Autorenporträt

Alessandro Arcangeli is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Verona. He is the author of Cultural History: A Concise Introduction (2012) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Approaching the historical study of dreams 2. Themes 3.
Les mots et les choses (an intermezzo on vocabulary) 4. Contexts 5.
Recovering and negotiating a long tradition 6. Girolamo Cardano, the
dreaming scholar 7. The sixteenth-century treatise on dreams: a quasi-genre
8. A selection of sources on Renaissance dream cultures 9. A look at images
10. Fragments towards a grand narrative 11. The development of the studies
in historical dream cultures 12. A Coda on the oneiric present