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Author : Emanuel Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Bath (England)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044100099225
Author : Emanuel Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:504199476
Author : William Robert Wake,Joseph Easterbrook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1788
Category : Demoniac possession
ISBN : BL:A0021796636
Author : Anne Stott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0199245320
This is the first substantial biography of More for 50 years and the first to make extensive use of her unpublished correspondence.
Author : H. C. Erik Midelfort
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300130133
In the late eighteenth century, Catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner (1727-1779) discovered that he had extraordinary powers of exorcism. Deciding that demons were responsible for most human ailments, he healed thousands, rich and poor, Protestant and Catholic. In this book H.C. Erik Midelfort delves deeply into records of the time to explore Gassner's remarkable exorcising campaign, chronicle the official efforts to curb him, and reconstruct the sufferings of the afflicted. Gassner's activities triggered a Catholic religious revival as well as a noisy skeptical reaction. In response to those who doubted that he was really casting out demons, Gassner marshaled hundreds of eyewitness reports that seemed to prove his exorcisms really worked. Midelfort describes the enormous public controversy that resulted, and he demonstrates that the Gassner episode yields important insights into the German Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, the limitations of eighteenth-century debate, and the ongoing role of magic and belief in an age of scientific enlightenment.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Medical
ISBN : 052153061X
The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves. The authors examine the meanings that were attached to sickness; popular medical beliefs and practices; the diffusion of popular medical knowledge; and the relations between patients and their doctors (both professional and 'fringe') seen from the patients' point of view. This is an important work, for illness and death dominated life in earlier societies to an enormous degree. Yet almost no studies of this kind have ever been carried out before, practically all previous treatments having been written from the traditional point of view of the doctor, the hospital, or medical science. It will accordingly interest a wide range of readers interested in social history as well as the history of medicine itself.