The English Exorcist: John Darrell and the Shaping of Early Modern English Protestant Demonology

ISBN-13: 9780367528249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 318 str.

Opis

The English Exorcist presents an intellectual history of John Darrell, a controversial Puritan exorcist in the early modern period. It illustrates that Darrell’s exorcism ministry and demonological works were a catalyst for spiritual reform in the early seventeenth century Church of England.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Katherine Wright and the Birth of an Exorcist; 2. Thomas Darling, the “Boy of Burton”; 3. “The Lancashire Seven” and the Periphery of Early Modern English Protestantism; 4. William Sommers and Godly Reformation in Nottingham; 5. The High Commission; 6. The “Sceptic” and the “Exorcist”; 7. Godly Conferences and Demonological Discourses; 8. Ecclesiastical Reform and the Shaping of English Protestant Demonology; Conclusion

O autorze

Brendan C. Walsh is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests lie primarily in the area of early modern Reformed English Protestant demonology, focusing on the themes of demonic possession, exorcism, spiritual healing, and diabolic witchcraft.