Alessandro Arcangeli is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Verona. He is the author of Cultural History: A Concise Introduction (2012) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World (2020).

"Alessandro Arcangeli's new book is at once scholarly, wide-ranging and original."Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK

• 1. Introduction: Approaching the historical study of dreams 2. Themes 3. Les mots et les choses (an intermezzo on vocabulary) 4. Contexts 5. Recovering and negotiating a long tradition 6. Girolamo Cardano, the dreaming scholar 7. The sixteenth-century treatise on dreams: a quasi-genre 8. A selection of sources on Renaissance dream cultures 9. A look at images 10. Fragments towards a grand narrative 11. The development of the studies in historical dream cultures 12. A Coda on the oneiric present

Alessandro Arcangeli is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Verona. He is the author of Cultural History: A Concise Introduction (2012) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World (2020).

"Alessandro Arcangeli's new book is at once scholarly, wide-ranging and original."Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK

• 1. Introduction: Approaching the historical study of dreams 2. Themes 3. Les mots et les choses (an intermezzo on vocabulary) 4. Contexts 5. Recovering and negotiating a long tradition 6. Girolamo Cardano, the dreaming scholar 7. The sixteenth-century treatise on dreams: a quasi-genre 8. A selection of sources on Renaissance dream cultures 9. A look at images 10. Fragments towards a grand narrative 11. The development of the studies in historical dream cultures 12. A Coda on the oneiric present

Alessandro Arcangeli is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Verona. He is the author of Cultural History: A Concise Introduction (2012) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World (2020).

"Alessandro Arcangeli's new book is at once scholarly, wide-ranging and original."Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK

• 1. Introduction: Approaching the historical study of dreams 2. Themes 3. Les mots et les choses (an intermezzo on vocabulary) 4. Contexts 5. Recovering and negotiating a long tradition 6. Girolamo Cardano, the dreaming scholar 7. The sixteenth-century treatise on dreams: a quasi-genre 8. A selection of sources on Renaissance dream cultures 9. A look at images 10. Fragments towards a grand narrative 11. The development of the studies in historical dream cultures 12. A Coda on the oneiric present