TY - BOOK ID - 138351080 TI - Sleep in early modern England PY - 2016 SN - 0300222130 9780300222135 9780300220391 0300220391 PB - New Haven DB - UniCat KW - Sleep KW - Sleeping customs KW - Social change KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - History. KW - England KW - Social life and customs. KW - Social conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138351080 AB - A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing on diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is on biological and environmental factors. After 1660 the accepted notion that sleepers lay at the mercy of natural forces and supernatural agents was challenged by new medical thinking about sleep's relationship to the nervous system. This breakthrough coincided with radical changes shaping everything from sleeping hours to bedchambers. Handley's illuminating work documents a major evolution in our conscious understanding of the unconscious. ER -