The Reception of Dreams in Early Modern Italian Popular Culture - 1450-1550.

梦想是将所有文化联系在一起的为数不多的共同体验线索之一，在流行文化的生产中发挥着重要的作用。然而，令人惊讶的是，关于梦及其在文艺复兴时期意大利流行文化中的接受程度的全面研究很少。不仅梦的文学值得分析，而且通过仔细研究印刷文化，它对流行文化的影响可以与常见的人类经验和日常做法联系起来。此外，跨文化方法至关重要。面对阿拉伯和伊斯兰对文艺复兴时期意大利梦文学的影响不断减弱的情况下，我想调查传播和接受的过程。对文艺复兴时期梦想文化的创新研究将有助于对意大利文艺复兴时期已经丰富的关于愿景、灵感和天才的史学研究。该项目将解决一系列明确的问题。首先，受欢迎的观众是如何解读他们的梦想的，这是否塑造了他们如何驾驭日常生活？其次，天主教会内部关于梦的相互矛盾的观点如何影响人们对梦的解释？此外，女性如何解读她们的梦？最后，阿拉伯语文本在多大程度上影响了大众对梦的解读，观众在多大程度上意识到了这一点？对于当代和历史学的衰落过程，以及阿拉伯的影响如何从大众意识中消失，缺乏准确的研究。然而，赛义夫(2015)、奥伯赫尔曼(2016)和克尼什(2012)在很大程度上开创了先例，表明我希望分析的来源是如何与伊斯兰思想重叠的。我的目标是为现有的关于文艺复兴时期意大利文学和阿拉伯文学之间的跨文化交流的辩论做出贡献。在有关梦的史学文献中，鲁沃尔特走在了前列。鲁沃尔特将梦理论的起源追溯到视觉意象的创造和生产。鲁沃特希望将梦想与更大的社会和历史背景联系起来，但对艺术史的强烈关注留下了大量文艺复兴时期的梦想文学未被探索。此外，尽管林奇、克拉克的专著和编辑过的合集《阅读早期的现代梦想》试图解决早期现代社会的梦想问题，但这些书无法对文艺复兴时期意大利的流行梦想文化进行明确的调查。霍兰德(1999)提供了一张欧洲梦想的“路线图”，但同样缺乏充分理解文艺复兴时期梦想所需的细节。虽然这些作品对早期现代欧洲梦的思想起源仍然有影响，但这些研究忽略了早期现代意大利流行的主题。这项研究将集中在1450年至1550年之间，通过检查梦的手册和手册、文学散文、诗歌、日记和信件来分析社会文化对梦的接受。许多梦想手册和手册要么完全忽视了妇女的梦想，要么对妇女在梦中的存在提出了贬损和愤世嫉俗的观点。更深入地挖掘女性在梦中的角色，试图揭开女性的梦想，这是一个令人兴奋的机会。也将考虑变化的连续性和叙事，承认早期现代意大利对梦想的接受在一定程度上是源于古老的梦想的长期传统。总而言之，我这个博士的目的是阐明意大利历史上的一个领域，这个领域在很大程度上仍然局限于狭隘的智力研究或对视觉文化的解释。许多关于梦的工作对更广泛的史学几乎没有影响，所以通过将我对梦的解释框架带到更广泛的社会考察中，我可以扩展和修改现有的史学。

"Dreams are one of the few common threads of experience tying together all cultures, serving an influential purpose in the production of popular culture. Yet surprisingly, few comprehensive studies exist of dreams and their reception within popular culture in Renaissance Italy. Not only is the literature of dreams alone worthy of analysis, its impact on popular culture can be linked to common human experience and everyday practices by a close examination of print culture. Furthermore, a transcultural approach is vital. I want to investigate the process of transmission and reception in the face of continual effacement of Arabic and Islamic influence on Renaissance Italian dream literature. This innovative study of Renaissance dream culture will contribute to the already rich historiography on visions, inspiration, and genius in the Italian Renaissance. The project will address a set of defined questions. Primarily, how did popular audiences interpret their dreams, and did this shape how they navigated everyday life? Secondly, how did contradictory views of dreaming within the Catholic Church shape people's interpretations of dreams? Moreover, how did women interpret their dreams? Finally, to what extent did Arabic texts influence popular interpretations of dreams, and to what extent were audiences aware of it? There is a lack of precise study on the process of contemporary and historiographical effacement and how the Arabic influence was removed from popular consciousness. However, Saif (2015), Oberhelman (2016), and Knysh (2012) largely set the precedent in showing how the sources I wish to analyse overlap with Islamic ideas. I aim to contribute to an existing debate about the cross-cultural exchanges between Renaissance Italian and Arabic literature. Within historiographical literature on dreams, Ruvoldt is at the forefront. Ruvoldt traces the origins of dream theory to creation and production of visual imagery. Ruvoldt wished to connect dreams to a 'larger social and historical context', but the sharp focus on art history leaves vast amounts of Renaissance dream literature unexplored. Furthermore, while monographs by Lynch, Clark, and the edited collection Reading the Early Modern Dream attempt to tackle the dream in early modern societies, these books are unable to offer a defined investigation into the popular culture of dreams in Renaissance Italy. Holland (1999) provides a 'roadmap' of dreams in Europe, but again lacks the detail necessary to fully understand dreams in the Renaissance. While these works remain influential in the intellectual origins of dreams in early modern Europe, these studies have neglected themes of popular reception in early modern Italy. This study will focus on the period between 1450 and 1550, analysing the socio-cultural reception of dreams by examining dream manuals and handbooks, literary prose, poetry, diaries, and letters. Many dream manuals and handbooks also either entirely ignored the dreams of women or presented a derogative and cynical view of the presence of women in dreams. Digging deeper into the role of women in dreams and trying to uncover the dreams of women is an exciting opportunity. Continuity and narratives of change will also be considered, recognising that the reception of dreams in early modern Italy was in part born from a long-standing tradition of dreams stemming from antiquity. In summary, my aim with this PhD is to elucidate an area in Italian history which has largely remained confined to narrow intellectual studies or to interpretations of visual culture. Much work on dreams has had little impact on the wider historiography, so by bringing my interpretive framework of dreams to a wider inspection of society, I can expand and revise existing historiography."