Description
Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to be human. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the dream and dream-theory in texts and in social movements. In topics ranging from the dreams of animals to the visions of Elizabeth I, and from prophetic dreams to ghosts in political writing, this book asks what meanings early modern people found in dreams.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Reading the Early Modern Dream
S.J. Wiseman
2. Dreaming, Motion, Meaning: Oneiric Transport in Seventeenth-
Europe
Mary Baine Campbell
3. ‘Onely Proper Unto Man’: Dreaming and Being Human
Erica Fudge
4. Dream-Visions of Elizabeth I
Helen Hackett
5. Dreams, Prophecies and Politics: John Dee and the Elizabethan
Court, 1575-85
Stephen Clucas
6. Dreaming the Dead: Ghosts and History in the early Seventeenth-
Century
Michelle O’Callaghan
7. ‘Imaginarie in Manner, Reall in Matter’: Rachel Speght’s Dreame
and the Female Scholar-Poet
Kate Lilley
8. Dreaming Meanings: Some Early Modern Dream Thoughts
Katharine Hodgkin
9. ‘I Saw No Angel’: Civil War Dreams and the History of Dreaming
S.J. Wiseman
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