Dreams, Dreamers, and Visions : : The Early Modern Atlantic World /

Dreams, Dreamers, and Visions : : The Early Modern Atlantic World / / ed. by Ann Marie Plane, Leslie Tuttle.

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In Europe and North and South America during the early modern period, people believed that their dreams might be, variously, messages from God, the machinations of demons, visits from the dead, or visions of the future. Interpreting their dreams in much the same ways as their ancient and medieval fo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Emma,
Campbell, Mary Baine,
Corteguera, Luís R.,
Dennis, Matthew,
Gerona, Carla,
Jordán, María V.,
Lima, Luís Filipe Silvério,
Mack, Phyllis,
Plane, Ann Marie,
Redden, Andrew,
Riviére, Janine,
Tuttle, Leslie,
Wallace, Anthony F. C.,
HerausgeberIn:
Plane, Ann Marie,
Tuttle, Leslie,
TeilnehmendeR:
Wallace, Anthony F. C.
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword. Xanadu: Dreams of the Dark Side of Paradise
  • Introduction. The Literatures of Dreaming
  • PART I. European Theories, Politics, and Experiences of Dreaming
  • Chapter 1. The Inner Eye Early Modern Dreaming and Disembodied Sight
  • Chapter 2. Demons of Desire or Symptoms of Disease? Medical Theories and Popular Experiences of the ''Nightmare'' in Premodern England
  • Chapter 3. Competition and Confirmation in the Iberian Prophetic Community. The 1589 Invasion of Portugal in the Dreams of Lucrecia de Leòn
  • Chapter 4. The Peasant Who Went to Hell Dreams and Visions in Early Modern Spain
  • Chapter 5. Dreams and Prophecies. The Fifth Empire of Father Antonio Vieira and Messianic Visions of the Bragança Dynasty in Seventeenth-Century Portugal and Brazil
  • PART II. Intercultural Encounter
  • Chapter 6. Flying Like an Eagle Franciscan and Caddo Dreams and Visions
  • Chapter 7. Dream-Visions and Divine Truth in Early Modern Hispanic America
  • Chapter 8. French Jesuits and Indian Dreams in Seventeenth-Century New France
  • Chapter 9. ''My Spirit Found a Unity with This Holy Man''
  • PART III. The Eighteenth Century Prophecy and Revival
  • Chapter 10. The Unbounded Self Dreaming and Identity in the British Enlightenment
  • Chapter 11. Visions of Handsome Lake
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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