Discerning Spirits

Name: Discerning Spirits
Brand: Cornell University Press
SKU: 9780801473340
Price: 43.24 EUR
Availability: InStock

Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages

Автор: Nancy Caciola

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Cornell University Press

Наличност: Външен склад

Изпращаме след 9-15 дни

43.24 € 84.58 лв

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

Информация за книгата

Автор

Nancy Caciola

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2006

страници

352

EAN

9780801473340

ISBN

0801473349

Enbook ID

04707064

Издател

Cornell University Press

Теглоt

512

Размери

156 x 234 x 21

Пълно описание

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.

Може също да ви хареса

Клиенти, които купиха тази книга, купиха също

Най-често търсени

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Продукти

Продукти

Най-често търсени

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Продукти

Продукти

Discerning Spirits

Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages

Информация за книгата

Пълно описание

Може също да ви хареса

Клиенти, които купиха тази книга, купиха също