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Author Kagan, Richard L., 1943- author.

Title Lucrecia's dreams : politics and prophecy in sixteenth-century Spain / Richard L. Kagan
Published Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1990]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages)
Contents Lucrecia de León -- Dreams diabolical, dreams divine -- "I wake up the moment my eyes are closed" -- Politics and prophecy -- Lucrecia the prophet -- Trial in Toledo -- Conclusion: understanding Lucrecia
Summary Branded by the Spanish Inquisition as an "evil dreamer," a "notorious mother of prophets," the teenager Lucrecia de León 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 celébre, 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
Analysis Spain History, 1516-1598
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject León, Lucrecia de, 1568-
León, Lucrecia de, 1568- -- Prophecies
SUBJECT León, Lucrecia de, 1568- fast
LeÓn, Lucrecia De, 1568- larpcal
Leon, Lucrecia de, 1568- nli
León, Lucrecia de, (1568- ...) -- Prophéties. ram
Leon, Lucrecia de, (1568-{) ram
Subject Prophets -- Spain -- Biography
Inquisition -- Spain.
HISTORY.
Inquisition
Prophets
Voorspellingen.
Dromen.
Processen (rechtspraak)
História da espanha (século 16)
Profecias (aspectos políticos;história) -- Espanha.
Inquisição -- Espanha.
Inquisition -- Spain.
Prophets -- Spain -- Biography.
Prophètes -- Espagne -- 16e siècle -- Biographies.
Inquisition -- Espagne -- 16e siècle.
Spain
Genre/Form Prophecies
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520916593
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