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Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England

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Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England - Dendle, Peter
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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 ...

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Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England 2015, Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo

ISBN-13: 9781580441698

Hardcover