The Medical Diagnosis of Demonic Possession in an Early Modem English Community.
In early modem England both ordinary and learned people believed that certain kinds of illness might be the result of maleficium (harmful magic) or demonic possession. While belief in witchcraft and demons may have declined somewhat during the course of the seventeenth century, it remained acceptabl...
| Publicado en: | Parergon Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 115 - 139 |
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Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval & Early Modern Studies
2009
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