Discerning Spirits – Divine and Demonic Po...

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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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Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past\|Conjunctions of Religion and P
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780801473340
ISBN-10:	0801473349
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Nancy Mandevill Caciola
Auflage:	New ed
Hersteller:	CORNELL UNIV PR
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen:	23 halftones
Maße:	233 x 157 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Nancy Mandevill Caciola
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.07.2006
Gewicht:	0,554 kg

Artikel-ID: 131303920

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past\|Conjunctions of Religion and P
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780801473340
ISBN-10:	0801473349
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Nancy Mandevill Caciola
Auflage:	New ed
Hersteller:	CORNELL UNIV PR
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen:	23 halftones
Maße:	233 x 157 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Nancy Mandevill Caciola
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.07.2006
Gewicht:	0,554 kg