Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages

Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages

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