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Spectralities in the Renaissance

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Caroline Callard author Trista Selous translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:5th May '22

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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.

ISBN: 9780198849476

Dimensions: 240mm x 162mm x 19mm

Weight: 546g

256 pages