Ann Marie Plane is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England. Leslie Tuttle is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas and the author of Conceiving the Old Regime: Pronatalism and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern France. Anthony F. C. Wallace is University Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania and author of several distinguished books and many articles. Known for his pioneering work in medical anthropology, particularly the history of revitalization movements, Wallace lives on the border of the Tuscarora Reservation in western New York, where he began his fieldwork over sixty years ago. He has made major contributions to several distinct subfields in history and anthropology, but in Native American studies he is perhaps best known for his work Death and Rebirth of the Seneca.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword. Xanadu: Dreams of the Dark Side of Paradise
-Anthony F. C. Wallace
Introduction: The Literatures of Dreaming
-Ann Marie Plane and Leslie Tuttle
I. EUROPEAN THEORIES, POLITICS, AND EXPERIENCES OF DREAMING Dreaming
Chapter 1. The Inner Eye: Early Modern Dreaming and Disembodied Sight
-Mary Baine Campbell
Chapter 2. Demons of Desire or Symptoms of Disease? Medical Theories and Popular Experiences of the "Nightmare" in Premodern England
-Janine RiviÈre
Chapter 3. Competition and Confirmation in the Iberian Prophetic Community: The 1589 Invasion of Portugal in the Dreams of Lucrecia de LeÓn
-MarÍa V. JordÁn
Chapter 4. The Peasant Who Went to Hell: Dreams and Visions in Early Modern Spain
-LuÍs R. Corteguer
Chapter 5. Dreams and Prophecies: The Fifth Empire of Father Antonio Vieira and Messianic Visions of the BraganÇa Dynasty in Seventeenth-Century Portugal and Brazil
-LuÍs Filipe SilvÉrio Lima (trans. Anna Luisa Geselbracht)
II. INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTER
Chapter 6. Flying Like an Eagle: Franciscan and Caddo Dreams and Visions
-Carla Gerona
Chapter 7. Dream-Visions and Divine Truth in Early Modern Hispanic America
-Andrew Redden
Chapter 8. French Jesuits and Indian Dreams in Seventeenth-Century New France
-Leslie Tuttle
Chapter 9. "My Spirit Found a Unity with This Holy Man": A Nun's Visions and the Negotiation of Pain and Power in Seventeenth-Century New France
-Emma Anderson
III. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: PROPHECY AND REVIVAL
Chapter 10. The Unbounded Self: Dreaming and Identity in the British Enlightenment
-Phyllis Mack
Chapter 11. Visions of Handsome Lake: Seneca Dreams, Prophecy, and the Second Great Awakening
-Matthew Dennis
Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
