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Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages
Nancy Mandeville Caciola
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paperback. Series: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801473340
SKU
V9780801473340
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About Nancy Mandeville Caciola
Nancy Caciola is Associate Professor of Medieval History at University of California, San Diego.
Reviews for Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages
Discerning Spirits is clearly an important contribution to the study of medieval culture, demonic possession, sainthood, and women's history. Caciola has a strong command of Latin, French, German, and Italian as witnessed in the numerous translations dispersed throughout the text.... Ultimately, the work succeeds in laying out a framework for the discernment of bodies associated with divine and demonic possession, ... Read more