Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe

Covering Western Europe (c. 1240-1450) and drawing upon a rich body of sources, this volume analyses how lay people understood the phenomenon of demonic presence and possession and used it to identify and unravel problems in their lives.

List of contents

• Introduction: Demons in Daily Life: Lived Religion and Devotional Strategies


• 1: Reasons for Possession: Perilous People, Hazardous Places


• 2: Vulnerable Persons: Corporeality and the Female Life Course


• 3: Community Responses to Demonic Presence


• 4: Constructing the Sacred: Demons, Priests and Pilgrims


• 5: The Interwoven Fabric of the Sacred and the Political


• 6: The Need for Control: Demonic Sex and the Feminine


• Bibliography

About the author

Sari Katajala-Peltomaa is a university researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences at Tampere University, Finland. She specializes in late medieval hagiography and especially in canonization processes. Her work centres on lived religion, gender, and family as well as methodological questions concerning canonization processes. Laity's devotional strategies, especially various forms and means of interacting with the supernatural, are crucial themes in her publications.

Summary

Covering Western Europe (c. 1240-1450) and drawing upon a rich body of sources, this volume analyses how lay people understood the phenomenon of demonic presence and possession and used it to identify and unravel problems in their lives.

Product details

• Authors: Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari (University Researcher Katajala-Peltomaa, Katajala-Peltomaa Sari
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2020
• EAN: 9780198850465
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885046-5
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; European History, RELIGION / History, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, Medieval History, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE