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Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages

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Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages - Caciola, Nancy Mandeville, Professor
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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.

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Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages 2006, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9780801473340

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Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages 2003, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9780801440847

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