Author: Emanuel GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Bibliotheca Somersetensis: County books, Bath excepted. L-Z. General index
Author: Emanuel GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Bibliotheca somersetensis
Author: Emanuel GreenA Narrative of the Extraordinary Case of Geo. Lukins
Author: William Robert WakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Demoniac possession
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Hannah More
Author: Anne StottPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199245321
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This is the first substantial biography of More for 50 years and the first to make extensive use of her unpublished correspondence.
Exorcism and Enlightenment
Author: H. C. Erik MidelfortPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300130139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
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.
Patients and Practitioners
Author: Roy PorterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521530613
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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.