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Title Dreams, dreamers, and visions : the early modern Atlantic world / edited by Ann Marie Plane and Leslie Tuttle ; foreword by Anthony F.C. Wallace
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 316 pages)
Series EBL-Schweitzer
Contents Foreword : Xanadu : Dreams of the Dark Side of Paradise / Wallace, Anthony F. C. -- Introduction : The Literatures of Dreaming / Plane, Ann Marie ; Tuttle, Leslie -- The Inner Eye : Early Modern Dreaming and Disembodied Sight / Campbell, Mary Baine -- Demons of Desire or Symptoms of Disease? : Medical Theories and Popular Experiences of the ''Nightmare'' in Premodern England / Riviére, Janine -- Competition and Confirmation in the Iberian Prophetic Community : The 1589 Invasion of Portugal in the Dreams of Lucrecia de León / Jordán, María V. -- The Peasant Who Went to Hell : Dreams and Visions in Early Modern Spain / Corteguera, Luís R. -- Dreams and Prophecies : The Fifth Empire of Father Antonio Vieira and Messianic Visions of the Bragança Dynasty in Seventeenth-Century Portugal and Brazil / Lima, Luís Filipe Silvério -- Flying Like an Eagle : Franciscan and Caddo Dreams and Visions / Gerona, Carla -- Dream-Visions and Divine Truth in Early Modern Hispanic America / Redden, Andrew -- French Jesuits and Indian Dreams in Seventeenth-Century New France / Tuttle, Leslie -- ''My Spirit Found a Unity with This Holy Man'' : A Nun's Visions and the Negotiation of Pain and Power in Seventeenth-Century New France / Anderson, Emma -- The Unbounded Self : Dreaming and Identity in the British Enlightenment / Mack, Phyllis -- Visions of Handsome Lake : Seneca Dreams, Prophecy, and the Second Great Awakening / Dennis, Matthew
Summary In this volume, scholars from three continents trace the role of dreams in the cultural transitions of the early modern Atlantic world, illustrating how both Indigenous and European methods of understanding dream phenomena became central to contests over religious and political power
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Dreams -- North Atlantic Region -- History -- 16th century
Dreams -- North Atlantic Region -- History -- 17th century
Dreams -- North Atlantic Region -- History -- 18th century
Dream interpretation -- North Atlantic Region -- History -- 16th century
Dream interpretation -- North Atlantic Region -- History -- 17th century
Dream interpretation -- North Atlantic Region -- History -- 18th century
Visions -- North Atlantic Region -- History -- 16th century
Visions -- North Atlantic Region -- History -- 17th century
Visions -- North Atlantic Region -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
Civilization
Dream interpretation
Dreams
Visions
SUBJECT North Atlantic Region -- Civilization -- History -- 16th century
North Atlantic Region -- Civilization -- History -- 17th century
North Atlantic Region -- Civilization -- History -- 18th century
Subject North Atlantic Region
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Plane, Ann Marie, 1964-
Tuttle, Leslie, 1967-
ISBN 0812208048
9780812208047