![]() | Discerning Spirits Analyzes a broad array of sources--from saints' lives to medical treatises, exorcists' manuals to miracle accounts--to find that observers came to rely on the discernment of bodies rather than seeking to distinguish between divine and demonic possession in purely spiritual terms. Nancy Caciola is Associate Professor of Medieval History at University of California, San Diego. |
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