The scourge of demons : possession, lust, and witchcraft in a seventeenth-century Italian convent /

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In 1636, residents at the convent of Santa Chiara in Carpi in northern Italy were struck by an extraordinary illness that provoked bizarre behavior. Eventually numbering fourteen, the afflicted nuns were subject to screaming fits, throwing themselves on the floor, and falling abruptly into a deep sl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watt, Jeffrey R. (Jeffrey Rodgers), 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2009.
Colección:Changing perspectives on early modern Europe.
Temas:
Monastero Santa Chiara (Carpi, Italy) > History > 17th century.
Monastero Santa Chiara (Carpi, Italy)
Carpi > Santa Chiara > Kloster.
1600-1699
Geschichte 1630-1640.
Demoniac possession > Italy > Carpi > History > 17th century.
Witchcraft > Italy > Carpi > History > 17th century.
Possession diabolique > Italie > Carpi > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Sorcellerie > Italie > Carpi > Histoire > 17e siècle.
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
HISTORY > Modern > General.
Demoniac possession
Witchcraft
Hexerei
Dämonenglaube
Carpi (Italy) > Church history > 17th century.
Italy > Carpi
Church history
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : nuns, witchcraft, and the inquisition
  • Female religious, claustration, and Santa Chiara of Carpi
  • The outbreak and maleficia
  • The confessor and love magic
  • The exorcists and the demons
  • Sisters Dealta and Ippolita under attack
  • Bellacappa's defense
  • The waning of the possessions.

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