Dreams in Early Modern England

Dreams in Early Modern England
Author: Janine Riviere
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351744135

Dreams in Early Modern England shows the variety and complexity of the early modern English discourses on dreams, from the role of dreams and dream theory in framing religious, scientific and philosophical debates, to the way that dreams continued to offer important spiritual and supernatural guidance and lastly how ordinary people exercised agency over their lives through interpreting and using dreams. While today we tend to conceptualize dreams and dreaming as largely psychological, this study shows how early modern people understood dreams and dreaming as many different things, most significantly as political, religious, medical, philosophical and supernatural.

Life and Literature

Life and Literature
Author: J. Purver Richardson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3732681068

Reproduction of the original: Life and Literature by J. Purver Richardson