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Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England

Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England

Dendle, Peter

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Series: Research in Medieval Culture, Book 12

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismReligion General

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ISBN10: 1580441696
ISBN13: 9781580441698
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Published: Jan 22 2015
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.49
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.51
Language: English
Anglo-Saxon England was a society governed by the competing discourses of illness, spirituality, power, and community. The concepts of demon possession and exorcism, introduced by Christian missionaries, provided a potential outlet for expressing the psychological, biological, and sociopolitical dysfunctions of a society that was at the center of multiple conflicting cultural dimensions.

Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England is a reexamination of the available sources describing the possessed and a study of the currently recognized medical and psychiatric conditions that may be relevant to and resemble medieval possession.

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