Discerning Spirits

Name: Discerning Spirits
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Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages

Autor: Nancy Caciola

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Cornell University Press

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Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regar...

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Autor

Nancy Caciola

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2006

strony

352

EAN

9780801473340

ISBN

0801473349

Enbook ID

04707064

Wydawca

Cornell University Press

Waga

512

Wymiary

156 x 234 x 21

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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. Attempts to make decisions about individuals who exhibited supernatural powers were complicated by the fact that the most intense exemplars of lay spiritually were women, and the "fragile sex" was deemed especially vulnerable to the snares of the devil. 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.

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