Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781580441698)

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.

Author: Peter Dendle
ISBN-10: 1580441696
ISBN-13: 9781580441698
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Language: English
Published: 01/22/2015
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2015 pg. 1653