Possession, Puritanism and Print

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Possession, Puritanism and Print

Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy

History

Author: Marion Gibson

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Collection: Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 6th October 2015

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9781317315636


Tells a story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic possessions and exorcisms, this book highlights the existence of controversies in print in the late Elizabethan period of the kind that would one day lead to civil war.

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