Kelly Bulkeley. Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition. Stanford University Press, 2018. (For the first two installments of this post, click here and here.) Does it make sense to compare three dreams coming from three different worlds, separated from … [Read more...]
“Lucrecia the Dreamer” and the Spanish Inquisition – Kelly Bulkeley’s New Book on Dreams (Part 2)
Kelly Bulkeley. Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition. Stanford University Press, 2018. (Continued from my post of two weeks ago.) At the end of our last installment, we left Lucrecia de León in the prisons of the Spanish Inquisition with her newborn … [Read more...]
“Lucrecia the Dreamer” and the Spanish Inquisition – Kelly Bulkeley’s New Book on Dreams (Part 1)
Kelly Bulkeley. Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition. Stanford University Press, 2018. Dreams. Animals have them. Humankind's oldest stories talk about them. In your dreams! we say, or, beyond my wildest dreams, validating with our speech habits … [Read more...]
