Spectralities in the Renaissance: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

by Caroline Callard and Trista Selous

Spectralities in the Renaissance explores the history of the idea of ghosts in early modern Europe, moving away from thinking of them as a purely religious phenomenon, but as something rooted in cultural traditions, particularly in times of violence, where the living and the dead were in close proximity. Callard focuses on ancien regime France, to explore how the notion of ghosts and the supernatural played a part in France's early modern past, in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198849478
• ISBN13: 9780198849476
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"