Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages by Nancy Mandeville Caciola

Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages

Nancy Mandeville Caciola

352 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 sh...

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