Levin Dreaming the English Renaissance

Politics and Desire in Court and Culture
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-61573-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave History Collection

Dreaming the English Renaissance examines ideas about dreams, actual dreams people had and recorded, and the many ways dreams were used in the culture and politics of the Tutor/Stuart age in order to provide a window into the mental life and the most profound beliefs of people of the time.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levin, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1605, The Year of Three Dreams Theorists and Practitioners: Dreaming About the Living and the Dead Religion and Witchcraft Sexuality and Power Sacred Blood and Monarchy The Royal Road to the Death of the King The Use of Dreams as a Way to Understand History

Über Autor(innen)

CAROLE LEVIN is Willa Cather Professor of History at the University of Nebraska, USA. She is the author of The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power and The Reign of Elizabeth I .