Witchcraft, Exorcism and the Politics of Possession in a Seventeenth-Century Convent: 'How Sister Ursula Was Once Bewiched and Sister Margaret Twice'

by Nicky Hallett

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Presenting a remarkable set of previously unpublished papers, this book concerns the bewitchment, possession and exorcism of two seventeenth-century nuns living in exile in an English convent in the Spanish Netherlands. The two women left behind an extensive set of personal writing that reveals unprecedented detail about their devotional lives and spiritual states before, during and after exorcism. Unlike other similar cases, here the women write...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1138357987

ISBN13:9781138357983

Release Date:January 2020

Publisher:Routledge

Length:212 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.7"

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