Lucrecia's Dreams Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Name: Lucrecia's Dreams Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain
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ISBN: 9780520201583

ISBN-10: 0520201582

ISBN-13: 9780520201583

Edition: 1990

Authors: Richard L. Kagan

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Branded by the Spanish Inquisition as an "evil dreamer," a "notorious mother of prophets," the teenager Lucrecia de Leoacute;n had hundreds of bleak but richly imaginative dreams of Spain's future that became the stuff of political controversy and scandal. Based upon surviving transcripts of her dreams and on the voluminous records of her trial before the Inquisition,Lucrecia's Dreamstraces the complex personal and political ramifications of Lucrecia's prophetic career. This hitherto unexamined episode in Spanish history sheds new light on the history of women as well as on the history of dream interpretation. Charlatan or clairvoyant, sinner or saint, Lucrecia was transformed by her dreams…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/8/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 229
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Richard L. Kagan is a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the editor, with Philip D. Morgan, of Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500ndash;1800, and the translator and editor, with Abigail Dyer, of Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics, both published by Johns Hopkins.