Wood engraving, French School, seventeenth century. Woodcut of the exorcism of Nicole Obry in Pierre Boaistuau, Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusieurs auteurs (Paris, 1575), 1566. Thomas Belot, engraving in Jean Boulaese, Le Thrésor et entière histoire. Alte Galerie, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria. Panel of the Small Mariazell Miracle Altar, Danube School, 1512.
Bibliothèque nationale de France/The Bridgeman Art Library. St Catherine of Siena exorcizing a demon from a possessed woman, French School, seventeenth century. Unknown artist, St Eligius performing an exorcism, in a fifteenth-century life of St Eligius. Manuscript illustration in a book of Gospels by T’oros Roslin, 1262. Gerard Hoet, Jesus Expels an Unclean Spirit, Dutch Bible of 1728. BV873.E8L48 2013 133.4'26094-dc23 2012042933 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 3968.indd 4 21/12/12 4:00 PM Contents Illustrations vi Preface vii Acknowledgements xi 1 Making Sense of Demonic Possession 1 2 Possession and Exorcism in Christian Antiquity 32 3 Possession in Christian Demonology 56 4 Expelling the Demon 81 5 Demonic Possession and Illness 113 6 The Performance of the Possessed 139 7 The Demoniac in Society 169 8 The Demoniac and the Witch 191 9 Possession in the Age of Reason 215 10 Possession: Past and Present 240 11 Conclusion 254 Notes 266 Bibliography 314 Index 336 3968.indd 5 21/12/12 4:00 PM Illustrations 1.
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