Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition

by Bulkeley and Kelly Bulkeley

Book Overview

Set in late sixteenth-century Spain, this book tells the gripping story of Lucrecia de Le?n, a young woman of modest background who gained a dangerously popular reputation as a prophetic dreamer predicting apocalyptic ruin for her country. When Lucrecia was still a teenager, several Catholic priests took great interest in her prolific dreams and began to record them in detail. But the growing public attention to the dreams eventually became too...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503603865
• ISBN13: 9781503603868
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"