Vexed With Devils
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Vexed With Devils
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Author : Erika Gasser
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2019-12-15
Vexed With Devils written by Erika Gasser and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-15 with History categories.
Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England Those possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited a common set of symptoms: fits, vomiting, visions, contortions, speaking in tongues, and an antipathy to prayer. However, it was a matter of interpretation, and sometimes public opinion, if these symptoms were visited upon the victim, or if they came from within. Both early modern England and colonial New England had cases that blurred the line between witchcraft and demonic possession, most famously, the Salem witch trials. While historians acknowledge some similarities in witch trials between the two regions, such as the fact that an overwhelming majority of witches were women, the histories of these cases primarily focus on local contexts and specifics. In so doing, they overlook the ways in which manhood factored into possession and witchcraft cases. Vexed with Devils is a cultural history of witchcraft-possession phenomena that centers on the role of men and patriarchal power. Erika Gasser reveals that witchcraft trials had as much to do with who had power in the community, to impose judgement or to subvert order, as they did with religious belief. She argues that the gendered dynamics of possession and witchcraft demonstrated that contested meanings of manhood played a critical role in the struggle to maintain authority. While all men were not capable of accessing power in the same ways, many of the people involved—those who acted as if they were possessed, men accused of being witches, and men who wrote possession propaganda—invoked manhood as they struggled to advocate for themselves during these perilous times. Gasser ultimately concludes that the decline of possession and witchcraft cases was not merely a product of change over time, but rather an indication of the ways in which patriarchal power endured throughout and beyond the colonial period. Vexed with Devils reexamines an unnerving time and offers a surprising new perspective on our own, using stories and voices which emerge from the records in ways that continue to fascinate and unsettle us.
The Works
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Author : William Bridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1845
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Works Now First Collected
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Author : William Bridge (Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1845
Works Now First Collected written by William Bridge (Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1845 with categories.
Vexed With Devils
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Author : Erika Gasser
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2017-07-07
Vexed With Devils written by Erika Gasser and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-07 with History categories.
Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England Those possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited a common set of symptoms: fits, vomiting, visions, contortions, speaking in tongues, and an antipathy to prayer. However, it was a matter of interpretation, and sometimes public opinion, if these symptoms were visited upon the victim, or if they came from within. Both early modern England and colonial New England had cases that blurred the line between witchcraft and demonic possession, most famously, the Salem witch trials. While historians acknowledge some similarities in witch trials between the two regions, such as the fact that an overwhelming majority of witches were women, the histories of these cases primarily focus on local contexts and specifics. In so doing, they overlook the ways in which manhood factored into possession and witchcraft cases. Vexed with Devils is a cultural history of witchcraft-possession phenomena that centers on the role of men and patriarchal power. Erika Gasser reveals that witchcraft trials had as much to do with who had power in the community, to impose judgement or to subvert order, as they did with religious belief. She argues that the gendered dynamics of possession and witchcraft demonstrated that contested meanings of manhood played a critical role in the struggle to maintain authority. While all men were not capable of accessing power in the same ways, many of the people involved—those who acted as if they were possessed, men accused of being witches, and men who wrote possession propaganda—invoked manhood as they struggled to advocate for themselves during these perilous times. Gasser ultimately concludes that the decline of possession and witchcraft cases was not merely a product of change over time, but rather an indication of the ways in which patriarchal power endured throughout and beyond the colonial period. Vexed with Devils reexamines an unnerving time and offers a surprising new perspective on our own, using stories and voices which emerge from the records in ways that continue to fascinate and unsettle us.
The Works Of The Rev William Bridge M A
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Author : William Bridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1845
The Works Of The Rev William Bridge M A written by William Bridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1845 with Sermons, English categories.
Elijah The Prophet A Dream Of The Christ
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Author : Joel Bunyan Lemon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
Elijah The Prophet A Dream Of The Christ written by Joel Bunyan Lemon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with categories.
The Incentive To Murder An Inquiry Into The Incentive To Murder In The Mind Of P Nicholson Proving The Existence Of Evil Spirits Etc
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Author : Philip NICHOLSON (Murderer.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1813
The Incentive To Murder An Inquiry Into The Incentive To Murder In The Mind Of P Nicholson Proving The Existence Of Evil Spirits Etc written by Philip NICHOLSON (Murderer.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1813 with categories.
The Church School Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
The Church School Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Religious education categories.
The Sunday School Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
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The Girls Friendly Society Advertiser
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
The Girls Friendly Society Advertiser written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Great Britain categories.