Spectralities in the Renaissance: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Callard, Caroline and Selous, Trista

ISBN 10: 0198849478 / ISBN 13: 9780198849476

Published by see below, 2022

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2022 OUP hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spectralities in the Renaissance: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
• Publisher: see below
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198849478
• ISBN 13: 9780198849476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
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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.

About the Author

Caroline Callard, Directrice d'études, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris

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.