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Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition

Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition

Bulkeley, Kelly

Paperback

Series: Spiritual Phenomena

Biographies GeneralReligion General General Science

ISBN10: 1503603865
ISBN13: 9781503603868
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Feb 27 2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Set in late sixteenth-century Spain, this book tells the gripping story of Lucrecia de León, a young woman of modest background who gained a dangerously popular reputation as a prophetic dreamer predicting apocalyptic ruin for her country. When Lucrecia was still a teenager, several Catholic priests took great interest in her prolific dreams and began to record them in detail. But the growing public attention to the dreams eventually became too much for the Spanish king. Stung that Lucrecia had accurately foreseen the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, Philip II ordered the Inquisition to arrest her on charges of heresy and sedition. During Lucrecia's imprisonment, trial, and torture, the carefully collected records of her dreams were preserved and analyzed by the court. The authenticity of these dreams, and their potentially explosive significance, became the focal point of the Church's investigation.

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