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Spectralities in the Renaissance : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /

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"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 lit...

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Main Author:	Callard, Caroline, 1970- (Author)
Other Authors:	Selous, Trista, 1957- (Translator)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Past & present book series.
Subjects:	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 Electronic books. History
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