Discerning spirits : divine and demonic possession in the Middle Ages /

Publisher's description: Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows how medieval people...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Caciola, Nancy, 1963-
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press 2003.
Cyfres:Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvrf8bcv
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Possessed behaviors
  • Ciphers
  • Fallen women and fallen angels
  • Breath, heart, bowels
  • Exorcizing demonic disorder
  • Testing spirits in the effeminate age.