Vanities of the eye : vision in early modern European culture /

Main Author: Clark, Stuart
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Species : visions and values
  • Fantasies : seeing without what was within
  • Prestiges : illusions in magic and art
  • Glamours : demons and virtual worlds
  • Images : the reformation of the eyes
  • Apparitions : the discernment of spirits
  • Sights : King Saul and King Macbeth
  • Seemings : philosophical scepticism
  • Dreams : the epistemology of sleep
  • Signs : vision and the new philosophy.