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Lucrecia the dreamer : prophecy, cognitive science, and the Spanish Inquisition
- Title
- Lucrecia the dreamer : prophecy, cognitive science, and the Spanish Inquisition / Kelly Bulkeley.
- Author
- Bulkeley, Kelly, 1962-
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- viii, 237 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
- Summary
- Set in late sixteenth-century Spain, this book tells the gripping story of Lucrecia de Leon, 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 much for the Spanish king. Stung that Lucrecia had accurately foreseen the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, Philip II ordered the Inquisition to arrest her on charges of heresy and sedition. During Lucrecia's imprisonment, trial, and torture, the carefully collected records of her dreams were preserved and analyzed by the court. The authenticity of these dreams, and their potentially explosive significance, became the focal point of the Church's investigation. Returning to these records of a dreamer from another era, Lucrecia the Dreamer is the first book to examine Lucrecia's dreams as dreams, as accurate reports of psychological experiences with roots in the brain's natural cycles of activity during sleep. Using methods from the cognitive science of religion, dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley finds meaningful patterns in Lucrecia's dreaming prophecies and sheds new light on the infinitely puzzling question at the center of her trial, a question that has vexed all religious traditions throughout history: How can we determine if a dream is, or is not, a true revelation?
- Series Statement
- Spiritual phenomena
- Uniform Title
- Spiritual phenomena.
- Subject
- León, Lucrecia de, 1568- > Prophecies
- León, Lucrecia de, 1568-
- 1500-1599
- Women prophets > Spain > Biography
- Fortune-telling by dreams > Spain > History > 16th century
- Dreams > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Inquisition > Spain
- Cognitive science
- Psychology, Religious
- Fortune-telling by dreams
- Inquisition
- Women prophets
- Spain
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Prophecies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
- Contents
- Early life -- A record of dreams -- The three companions -- "Esta negra soñadora" -- New powers -- The trial -- What she was not -- Patterns in the dreams -- Cognitive science -- Relational psychology -- Politics and society -- History of religions -- What she most likely was.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-2995
- ISBN
- 9780804798242
- 0804798249
- 9781503603868
- 1503603865
- LCCN
- 2017018397
- OCLC
- 978661884
- Author
- Bulkeley, Kelly, 1962- author.
- Title
- Lucrecia the dreamer : prophecy, cognitive science, and the Spanish Inquisition / Kelly Bulkeley.
- Publisher
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Spiritual phenomenaSpiritual phenomena.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1599
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-2995