Spectralities in the Renaissance: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (The Past and Present Book Series) - Hardcover

Book 22 of 22: The Past and Present Book

Callard, Caroline

 
9780198849476: Spectralities in the Renaissance: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (The Past and Present Book Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198849478 ISBN 13: 9780198849476
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Caroline Callard is an historian of the early modern period and directrice d'études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198849478
ISBN 13 
9780198849476
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
256