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

Lucrecia the DreamerProphecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition\nAuthor(s): Kelly Bulkeley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804798242, 978-0804798242\nSynopsis\nSet in late sixteenth-century Spain, this book tells the gripping story of Lucrecia de Len, 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 d?