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

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

Branded by the Spanish Inquisition as an "evil dreamer," a "notorious mother of prophets," the teenager Lucrecia de LeÃ³n 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 Dreams traces 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 into a cause celÃ©bre, the rebellious counterpart to that other extraordinary woman of Golden Age Spain, St. Theresa of Jesus. Her supporters viewed her as a divinely inspired seer who exposed the personal and political shortcomings of Philip II of Spain. In examining the relation of dreams and prophecy to politics, Richard Kagan pays particular attention to the activities of the streetcorner prophets and female seers who formed the political underworld of sixteenth-century Spain.

Country	USA
Author	Richard L. Kagan
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520916593
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	229
PublicationDate	1990-06-22
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	1990-06-22
Studio	University of California Press

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

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