Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain

by Richard L. Kagan

Book Overview

Branded by the Spanish Inquisition as an "evil dreamer," a "notorious mother of prophets," the teenager Lucrecia de Len 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520066553
• ISBN13: 9780520066557
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.