Spectralities in the Renaissance - Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

An exciting and original study of the history of the idea of ghosts in early modern Europe, exploring 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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

An exciting and original study of the history of the idea of ghosts in early modern Europe, exploring 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.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Callard, Caroline (Directrice d'etudes Callard, Caroline (Directrice D''etudes Callard
• Assisted by: Trista Selous (Translation), Selous Trista (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780198849476
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884947-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The Past and Present Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance