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Bewitched and Bedevilled: A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Early English Possession

Bewitched and Bedevilled: A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Early English Possession

Hardcover

Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance

Literary CriticismReligion General General World History

ISBN10: 1137512245
ISBN13: 9781137512246
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 1 2015
Pages: 263
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized to create the varied manifestations of demon possession in early modern England.

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