Chapter 2. Demons of Desire or Symptoms of Disease? Medical Theories and Popular Experiences of the ‘‘Nightmare’’ in Premodern England

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword. Xanadu: Dreams of the Dark Side of Paradise vii
4. Introduction. The Literatures of Dreaming 1
5. PART I. European Theories, Politics, and Experiences of Dreaming
6. Chapter 1. The Inner Eye Early Modern Dreaming and Disembodied Sight 33
7. Chapter 2. Demons of Desire or Symptoms of Disease? Medical Theories and Popular Experiences of the ‘‘Nightmare’’ in Premodern England 49
8. Chapter 3. Competition and Confirmation in the Iberian Prophetic Community. The 1589 Invasion of Portugal in the Dreams of Lucrecia de Leòn 72
9. Chapter 4. The Peasant Who Went to Hell Dreams and Visions in Early Modern Spain 88
10. 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 104
11. PART II. Intercultural Encounter
12. Chapter 6. Flying Like an Eagle Franciscan and Caddo Dreams and Visions 125
13. Chapter 7. Dream-Visions and Divine Truth in Early Modern Hispanic America 147
14. Chapter 8. French Jesuits and Indian Dreams in Seventeenth-Century New France 166
15. Chapter 9. ‘‘My Spirit Found a Unity with This Holy Man’’ 185
16. PART III. The Eighteenth Century Prophecy and Revival
17. Chapter 10. The Unbounded Self Dreaming and Identity in the British Enlightenment 207
18. Chapter 11. Visions of Handsome Lake 226
19. Notes 245
20. Selected Bibliography 301
21. Contributors 305
22. Index 309
23. Acknowledgments 317