Spectralities in the Renaissance sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Temps des fantômes. English Callard, Caroline 1970- creator author. Selous, Trista 1957- translator. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk 2022 2022 First edition. monographic eng fre remote 1 online resource (257 pages) "A major contribution of this work is to characterize the ‘spectral moment' of early modernity. Two developments in the sixteenth century characterize this moment in particular: the presence of ghosts as an autonomous rhetorical commonplace freed from the confines of theology or votive literature, and the striking epistemological promotion of ghosts as objects of a knowledge legitimised by natural philosophy. By highlighting the ‘spectral moment' of early modernity, Spectralities in the Renaissance foregrounds the agency of ghosts particularly in property disputes over haunted houses as they were tried before civil courts in Paris, Tours and Bordeaux. Ghosts in these cases did not simply appear as products of their dire and distressing times but rather they had an active role in the resolution of conflicts. Conflicts over haunted houses occurred within both communities (Protestant and Catholic) and families at a time of civil war. And they involved both lay and religious powers, who strove sometimes to confirm their jurisdiction over these affairs and sometimes to thwart the actions of spectral agents. The chronology of this book's enquiry stops on the brink of trials for superstition conducted against ghosts, by the middle of the seventeenth century. At that precise moment ghosts lost their agency in justice and their very existential substance. A concluding chapter considers the consequences of this pragmatic history of ghosts for the Enlightenment and beyond"--Publisher's description. 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. Caroline Callard ; translated by Trista Selous. Includes bibliographical references and index. e------ Ghosts Europe History 16th century Ghosts Europe History 17th century Ghosts Religious aspects Christianity Apparitions Europe History 16th century Apparitions Europe History 17th century Apparitions Europe Histoire 16e siècle Apparitions Europe Histoire 17e siècle Renaissance Social History History RELIGION Apparitions Ghosts Ghosts Religious aspects Christianity Europe 1500-1699 fast BF1462 .C3513 2022 133.1094 Spectralities in the Renaissance Temps des fantômes. English Callard, Caroline, 1970- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 First edition. (OCoLC)1280274798 Past & present book series 9780192589262 0192589261 9780192589279 019258927X 9780198849476 9780191883590 019188359X 9780191883590 Oxford http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/43027 EBLCP 220625 20260318164330.1 in00005697137 eng