Alessandro Arcangeli

Renaissance Dream Cultures (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040108086
• Artikelnr.: 72286158

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

Rezensionen

"Alessandro Arcangeli's new book is at once scholarly, wide-ranging and original."

Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK