Onely proper unto man: dreaming and being human in the renaissance

Fudge, Erica; Wiseman, S J and Hodgkin, Katherine and O'Callaghan, Michelle, eds. (2007) Onely proper unto man: dreaming and being human in the renaissance. In: Reading the early modern dream: the terrors of the night. Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture . Routledge, New York, pp. 31-44. ISBN 978-0-415-38601-2

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    Abstract

    In his 1631 translation of Gulielmus Adolphus Scribonius’ work Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica, Daniel Widdowes wrote, ‘All Creatures are reasonable, or unreasonable. They which want reason, are Beasts, who live on Land or in Water.’ This perception of the absolute difference of human from animal comes from classical sources and persists not only in the ways in which thinkers understood the place of humanity in the early modern period, but also - albeit in more debated form - remains important today. Man (and it usually was man) is the thinking being; this is where the superiority of the species comes from.

    Creators(s): Fudge, Erica ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6903-7205; Wiseman, S J, Hodgkin, Katherine and O'Callaghan, Michelle
    Item type:Book Section
    ID code:29532
    Keywords:human, dreaming, literature, dream theory, Literary History
    Subjects:Language and Literature > Literature (General) > Literary History
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:14 Jun 2011 08:41
    Last modified:02 Jul 2020 17:56
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/29532
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