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 …

After the Reformation, Catholics developed new ways to express interior religious
experiences, including mystic visions. This article considers the epistemological impasse …

Samuel Johnson described Roger Ascham's The Schoolmaster (1570) as" perhaps
containing the best advice that was ever given for the study of languages." 1 Not prone to …

In der Welt des Mittelalters galten Dämonen als Diener und Helfer des Teufels, welche die
Menschen zur Sünde verführten und damit zu immerwährenden Qualen in die Hölle bringen …

Five miracles in the collection of Henry VI of England (d. 1471) describe the restoration of a
person who had lost his or her reason. This article explores and contextualizes the rhetoric …

Abstract Representations of exorcism in farces written and performed in the sixteenth-
century Low Countries at first sight merely testify to their authors' propensity for the …

Background: In rural contexts, meanings of suicide are part of the intimate heritage of those
closest to the suicidal person. They are also constructed through a social process. Over time …

Early 2018, while trying to address one of the many deficiencies in the Franciscan Authors
internet catalogue, 2 my attention was drawn towards a peculiar English study and source …

The Golden Age of Spanish mysticism has traditionally been read in terms of individual
authors or theological traditions. God Made Word, however, considers early modern …

With unwavering focus, Lady Macbeth admonishes him not to “[c] onsider it [...] so deeply,”
but Macbeth cannot let it go:“But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'?/I had most need …