Shortlisted for the 2017 Wolfson History Prize After 1660, scientific discoveries about the body's nervous system began to demystify supernatural explanations of sleep. Using a range of archival sources and material artifacts, this illuminating cultural history documents how radical changes in the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society.
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