Discerning Spirits : : Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages / / Nancy Mandeville Caciola.
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 decided whom to venerate as a...
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Caciola, Nancy Mandeville, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Discerning Spirits : Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages / Nancy Mandeville Caciola. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (352 p.) : 23 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. "A Protracted Disputation" -- 1. Possessed Behaviors -- 2. Ciphers -- Part II: Spiritual Physiologies -- 3 . Fallen Women and Fallen Angels -- 4. Breath, Heart, Bowels -- Part III. Discernment and Discipline -- 5. Exorcizing Demonic Disorder -- 6. Testing Spirits in the Effeminate Age -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 decided whom to venerate as a saint infused with the spirit of God and whom to avoid as a demoniac possessed of an unclean spirit. This process of discrimination, known as the discernment of spirits, was central to the religious culture of Western Europe between 1200 and 1500.Since the outward manifestations of benign and malign possession were indistinguishable, a highly ambiguous set of bodily features and behaviors were carefully scrutinized by observers. Attempts to make decisions about individuals who exhibited supernatural powers were complicated by the fact that the most intense exemplars of lay spirituality were women, and the "fragile sex" was deemed especially vulnerable to the snares of the devil. Assessments of women's spirit possessions often oscillated between divine and demonic interpretations. Ultimately, although a few late medieval women visionaries achieved the prestige of canonization, many more were accused of possession by demons.Caciola analyzes a broad array of sources from saints' lives to medical treatises, exorcists' manuals to miracle accounts, to find that observers came to rely on the discernment of bodies rather than seeking to distinguish between divine and demonic possession in purely spiritual terms. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Discernment of spirits History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500. Women in Christianity History Middle Ages, 600-1500. Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Religious Studies. HISTORY / Medieval. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110606744 print 9780801440847 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501702181 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501702181 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501702181/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. "A Protracted Disputation" -- 1. Possessed Behaviors -- 2. Ciphers -- Part II: Spiritual Physiologies -- 3 . Fallen Women and Fallen Angels -- 4. Breath, Heart, Bowels -- Part III. Discernment and Discipline -- 5. Exorcizing Demonic Disorder -- 6. Testing Spirits in the Effeminate Age -- Index |
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