1. Introduction: Approaching the historical study of dreams
2. Themes
3. Les mots et les choses (an intermezzo on vocabulary)
4. Contexts
5. Recovering and negotiating a long tradition
6. Girolamo Cardano, the dreaming scholar
7. The sixteenth-century treatise on dreams: a quasi-genre
8. A selection of sources on Renaissance dream cultures
9. A look at images
10. Fragments towards a grand narrative
11. The development of the studies in historical dream cultures
12. A Coda on the oneiric present
Biography
Alessandro Arcangeli is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Verona. He is the author of Cultural History: A Concise Introduction (2012) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World (2020).
"Alessandro Arcangeli's new book is at once scholarly, wide-ranging and original."
Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK
