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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 23 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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