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Spectralities in the renaissance : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Caroline Callard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Callard, Caroline, 1970- author.
- Series:
- Past & present book series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- The past & present book series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Apparitions.
- Ghosts--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Ghosts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- 'Spectralities in the Renaissance' explores the history of the idea of ghosts in early modern Europe, moving away from thinking of them as a purely religious phenomenon, but as something rooted in cultural traditions, particularly in times of violence, where the living and the dead were in close proximity. Callard focuses on ancien regime France, to explore how the notion of ghosts and the supernatural played a part in France's early modern past, in such disparate areas as politics, law, natural philosophy, and the cultural and emotional history of everyday life.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- This edition also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-258927-X
- 0-19-188359-X
- 0-19-258926-1
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