Spectralities in the Renaissance: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

2022 OUP hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. From the dustjacket: 'Spectralities in the Renaissance explores the history of ghosts in early modern Europe, moving away from thinking of them as recurring figures of ancient creed but as agents of a 'spectral moment' whose emergence is rooted in a context filled with 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.' Contents: 1. Spectrography: Ghosts in Writing 2. The Scientific Promotion of Spectres 3. Haunting in Times of Panic 4. An Agent in Conflict Resolution 5. Familiar Ghosts: The Sociology of Haunting 6. Crossing Boundaries 7. Governing Doubt and Belief 8. Spectral Politics Includes detailed coverage of major figures from classical antiquity, medieval theology, the Renaissance, and early modern European history, including: Monarchs, Popes & Rulers: Charles IX, Charles V, Charles VIII, Charlemagne, Elizabeth I, Ferdinand of Aragon, Henri III, Henri IV, Julius II, Louis XII, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Philip II, and Urban VIII. Ancient Philosophers, Authors & Historical Figures: Apuleius, Aristotle, Athenodorus, Aulus Gellius, Augustine of Hippo, Cicero, Demosthenes, Epicurus, Galen, Homer, Horatius (Horace), Lucian of Samosata, Philo, Plato, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Seneca, Thucydides, and Valerius Maximus. Renaissance Humanists, Intellectuals & Scientists: Alessandro Alessandri, Desiderius Erasmus, Francois Rabelais, Giovanni Boccaccio, Guillaume Bude, Jean Bodin, Jean-Jacques Boissard, Johann Amerbach, Johannes Wier, John Calvin, Joseph Scaliger, Justus Lipsius, Lorenzo Valla, Marc-Antoine Muret, Marsilio Ficino, Martin Luther, Michel de Montaigne, Niccolo Machiavelli, Pierre Bayle, Pierre de Ronsard, Renatus Descartes (Rene Descartes), Stephan Boltzhurst, Thomas Aquinas, and Tommaso Campanella. Celebrated Historical & Literary Characters: Amadis de Gaule, Don Quixote, Hamlet, Judith, and Orlando.…