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

ISBN-13: 9781138357983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str.

Nicky Hallett

Opis

The book includes both autobiographical and biographical material, written by the nuns and about them, and casting new light on processes of female self-writing at just the time when the 'modern subject' is often said to have emerged.

Spis treści

Contents: General introduction; Sources and manuscripts; Sister Margaret's spiritual confessions: her pre-exorcism diary; Lives of Margaret of Jesus and Ursula of All Saints by their Ghostly Father Edmund Bedingfield, Canon of St Gummarus in Lier[re]: his account of their exorcism; What we particularly observed in our Reverend Mother of happy memory's constant practices in perfection and solid virtue: Sister Ursula's tribute to Margaret of Jesus; The life of Venerable Mother Margaret of Jesus, religious of the Reformed Order by Seraphicall St Teresa compiled by E: B: her ghostly father and Canon of St Gummarus in Lier[re]; The miraculous cure of Anna Maria of St Joseph and 'ye Doctours attestation that her recouery was a Miracle'; 'Some little of what has passed concerning Margaret of Jesus': accounts of Sister Margaret by other nuns; Margaret of Jesus: her life from the Lierre annals; Edmund Bedingfield: his life from the Lierre annals; Ursula of All Saints: her life from the Lierre annals; 'That above-mentioned double diabolical witchcraft'; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Nicky Hallett