Sleep in Early Modern England

Sasha Handley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2016
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-22039-1 (ISBN)

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A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society

Drawing on diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is on biological and environmental factors. After 1660 the accepted notion that sleepers lay at the mercy of natural forces and supernatural agents was challenged by new medical thinking about sleep’s relationship to the nervous system. This breakthrough coincided with radical changes shaping everything from sleeping hours to bedchambers. Handley’s illuminating work documents a major evolution in our conscious understanding of the unconscious.

Sasha Handley is senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of Manchester. Her previous book is Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth-Century England. She lives in Manchester, UK.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.08.2016
Zusatzinfo	25 b-w illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-300-22039-1 / 0300220391
ISBN-13	978-0-300-22039-1 / 9780300220391
Zustand	Neuware