Philip C. Almond. Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England: Contemporary Texts and their Cultural Contexts.(Book review)

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PHILIP C. ALMOND. Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England: Contemporary Texts and their Cultural Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. x + 405.

Philip Almond renders historians of early modern England an important service. This book offers readers modernized versions of nine pamphlets published in England between 1574 and 1650 addressing different aspects of the contemporary interest in diabolic possession and exorcism. The documents ...

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