Spectralities in the Renaissance: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Couverture rigide

Livre 22 sur 22: The Past and Present Book

Callard, Caroline

 
9780198849476: Spectralities in the Renaissance: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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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À propos de l?auteur

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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