Bewitched And Bedeviled: A Cognitive Approach To Embodiment In Early English Possession (Cognitive Studies In Literature And Performance)

Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized to create the varied manifestations of demon possession in early modern England.

• | Author: K. Uszkalo
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jul 01, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 278 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1137512245
• | ISBN-13: 9781137512246