Fear the fairies
John Gallagher: Early Modern Sleepe, 18 May 2017
Sleep in Early Modern England
by Sasha Handley.
Yale, 280 pp., £25, August 2016,978 0 300 22039 1 Show More
by Sasha Handley.
Yale, 280 pp., £25, August 2016,
“... prop one’s body against a bolster was to court spiritual, medical and material danger. Sleep, Sasha Handley writes in her study of it in early modern England, ‘was understood as a state of transition between day and night, between degrees of consciousness, between the earthly and spiritual realms, and between life and death. The forces of nature ... ”
