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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
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.