| Author/Contributor(s): | Caciola, Nancy Mandeville |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Date: | 06/26/2006 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.