Spectralities in the Renaissance
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
1st Edition
Published on 21. April 2022
256 pages
978-0-19-258927-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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.
Content
- Introduction
- 1: Spectrography: Ghosts in Writing
- 2: The Learned 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
- Conclusion
