List of figures
Acknowledgements
A Note on Transcriptions
Introduction
Chapter 1: "Seasons of Sleep:" Natural Dreams, Health and the Physiology of Sleep Chapter 2: Decoding Dreams: Dreambooks and Divination
Chapter 3: "Nocturnal Whispers of the Almighty": Spiritual Dreams and the
Discernment of Spirits
Chapter 4: "The Terrors of the Night": Nightmares and Sleep Disorders
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Janine Rivière, received her PhD in History from the University of Toronto, Canada in 2013, where she has also been teaching since 2004. She has published widely on the topic of dreams and nightmares in early modern England.
"This book is an insightful and much-needed account of the nature, variety and use of dreams in early modern culture. By tracing how dreams were interweaved with religious, scientific and philosophical debates, and with the landscapes of everyday life in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England, Riviere makes a persuasive case for the active agency of dreams in shaping personal identities and broader cultural processes. This book is a ‘must-read’ for anyone who wants to delve deeper into the relationship between dreams, selfhood and nocturnal culture in the early modern world."
Sasha Handley, University of Manchester, UK
