Caroline CALLARD
Caroline Callard is an early modern historian, Director of Studies at l’EHESS, and member of CéSor. Her research focuses on the Italian Renaissance and the historical anthropology of early modern Europe. She has notably published Le temps des fantômes. Spectralités de l’Ancien Régime (Fayard, 2019) and Le Prince et la République. Histoire, pouvoir et société dans la Florence des Médicis (Presses universitaires de Paris Sorbonne, 2007).
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![Ghost appearing to a friend, miniature opening the chapter in Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires merveilleuses called “Prodigious visions with several memorable examples of phantosms [sic], specters, figures, shadows and other similar illusions that appear by niht [sic], with the decision of the question, if the spirits return.” It illustrates an anecdote borrowed from Cicro’s De divinatione. Manuscript dedicated and presented to Elizabeth I of England in 1559, London, Wellcome Library, Ms. 136, f° 100.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/illustration/iii_6_hantologie_boaistuau_d.jpg?itok=bYe6F3IZ "Ghost appearing to a friend, miniature opening the chapter in Pierre Boaistuau’s <em>Histoires merveilleuses</em> called “Prodigious visions with several memorable examples of phantosms [sic], specters, figures, shadows and other similar illusions that appear by niht [sic], with the decision of the question, if the spirits return.” It illustrates an anecdote borrowed from Cicro’s <em>De divinatione</em>. Manuscript dedicated and presented to Elizabeth I of England in 1559, London, Wellcome Library, Ms. 136, f° 100. Source : <a href=\"https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b19662506#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=200&z=-0.33%2C-0.0742%2C1.66%2C1.4843\" target=\"_blank\">wellcomelibrary.org</a>")
Ghost appearing to a friend, miniature opening the chapter in Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires merveilleuses called “Prodigious visions with several memorable examples of phantosms [sic], specters, figures, shadows and other similar illusions that appear by niht [sic], with the decision of the question, if the spirits return.” It illustrates an anecdote borrowed from Cicro’s De divinatione. Manuscript dedicated and presented to Elizabeth I of England in 1559, London, Wellcome Library, Ms. 136, f° 100. Source : wellcomelibrary.org
