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The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent by Jeffrey R. Watt

The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent

Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe

Jeffrey R. Watt

312 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion dark informative slow-paced
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In 1636, residents at the convent of Santa Chiara in Carpi in northern Italy were struck by an extraordinary illness that provoked bizarre behavior. Eventually numbering fourteen, the afflicted nuns were subject to screaming fits, throwing themsel...

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