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Nancy Caciola, Nancy Mandeville Caciola

Discerning Spirits - Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages

English · Hardback

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Summary

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.

Product details

Authors	Nancy Caciola, Nancy Mandeville Caciola
Publisher	Cornell University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	27.08.2003

EAN	9780801440847
ISBN	978-0-8014-4084-7
No. of pages	352
Dimensions	155 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
Weight	907 g
Series	Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past Conjunctions of Religion & Pow Conjunctions of Religion and P
Subject	Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages

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