Witchcraft, Exorcism and the Politics of Possession in a Seventeenth-Century Convent: 'How Sister Ursula Was Once Bewiched and Sister Margaret Twice'

by Nicky Hallett

Presenting a remarkable set of previously unpublished papers, this book concerns the bewitchment, possession and exorcism of two seventeenth-century nuns living in exile in an English convent in the Spanish Netherlands. The two women left behind an extensive set of personal writing that reveals unprecedented detail about their devotional lives and spiritual states before, during and after exorcism. Unlike other similar cases, here the women write...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138357987
• ISBN13: 9781138357983
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.7"