Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England

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Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England

Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England

Name: Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9781580441698

Peter Dendle

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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 recognized medical and psychiatric conditions that may be relevant to and resemble medieval possession.

Categories:

Poetry - American Poetry

Year:

2015

Publisher:

Medieval Institute Publications

Language:

english

Pages:

306

ISBN 10:

1580441696