Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England : Contemporary Texts and their Cultural Contexts近代英格兰的魔附和驱魔

作者： Philip C. Almond著

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出版时间： 2007-8-1字数：版次： 1页数： 405印刷时间： 2007/08/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780521037129包装： 平装内容简介

This is the first book exclusively devoted to demonic possession amd exorcism in early modern England. It offers, for the first time, modernised versions of the most significant texts on nine cases of demonic possession from the period 1570 to 1650. The nine stories of demonic possession were all written by eye-witnesses or were derived from eye-witness reports. The modernised texts and critical Introductions are placed within the context of an Introduction to demonic possession in England across the period 1550 to 1700.

作者简介

Philip C. Almond is Professor of Studies in Religion at The University of Queensland. He is the author of a number of books including Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought (Cambridge, 1999), Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England (Cambridge, 1994), Heretic and Hero: Muhammad and the Victorians (1989), and The British Discovery of Buddhism (Cambridge, 1988).

目录

Preface

Introduction

1 Disfigured by the Devil: The story of Alexander Nyndge

2 Two possessed maidens in London: The story of Agnes Briggs and Rachel Pinder

3 The witches of Warboys: The story of the Throckmorton children

4 The boy of Burton: The story of Thomas Darling

5 A household possessed: The story of the Lancashire seven

6 The counterfeit demoniac: The story of William Sommers

7 The puritan martyr: The story of Mary Glover

8 The boy of Bilson: The story of William Perry

9 A pious daughter: The story of Margaret Muschamp

References

Index