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The devil within : possession & exorcism in the Christian West
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- Auteurs : Levack Brian P. (1943-....) ;
- Editeurs : New Haven and London Yale University Press ;
- Date d'édition : Cop. 2013
- ISBN : 978-0-300-11472-0, 0-300-11472-9
- Sujets : Exorcisme -- Histoire -- Europe, Possession diabolique
- Comprend : Possession and exorcism in the Christian West
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii-346 p.-[8] p. de pl.), : Ill., jaquette ill. en coul., 24 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis, Royaume-Uni
Notes
Bibliogr. p. 314-335. Index
Résumé
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. This book focuses on possession and exorcism in the Reformation period, and also reaches back to the fifteenth century and forward to our own times